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Addicting/addictive

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Sjdjb · 14/10/2024 11:20

My son said his game was ‘addicting’ and I corrected him and said it was ‘addictive’. He is a pedant like me so didn’t like that and dug out a dictionary which suggested he was equally correct.
Now he keeps saying it 😡
It not is it? It’s addictive!
Is it American? (Like so much else my DC come out with).

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gonnabeteoubleemma · 14/10/2024 11:21

Mostly used in America

ClytemnestraWasMisunderstood · 18/10/2024 08:19

Sjdjb · 14/10/2024 11:20

My son said his game was ‘addicting’ and I corrected him and said it was ‘addictive’. He is a pedant like me so didn’t like that and dug out a dictionary which suggested he was equally correct.
Now he keeps saying it 😡
It not is it? It’s addictive!
Is it American? (Like so much else my DC come out with).

Thrash him soundly and send him to bed without supper!!
Do not let such Americanisms creep into your life!
(thrashing was a joke, obvs, before I get slaughtered!)

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