Now hang on here - Addictive vs Addicting

[Mr-Fusion]

This game is very addictive.

This game is very addicting.


Neither is really wrong. But addicting sounds 100% retarded to me. Does anyone else find the use of addicting in such a sentence retarded.

Another person the day said "He stuffed up, how embarrassment". Shouldn't that be "He stuffed up, how embarrassing"

 

[DEATHMASTER]

yo bitches dont know how to english well.

 

[CyberPitz]

I say addictive...not sure when I'd use Addicting..

 

[Raziaar]

I found this.

http://blog.ariffic.com/2007/06/27/addictive-vs-addicting/

Attention, Internet in general (and I’m especially glaring at you here, Diggtards): addictive and addicting are not! frigging! synonyms!

With this baby image and more.

Amusing.

 

[Dog--]

This shit is addicting!

Drugs are addictive!

Depends on what I'm talking about. I don't see why it matters tbh.

 

[Jintor]

Things are addictive, not addicting.

Addicting is the process of being addicted to something (OR IT SOUND LIKE IT RIGHT), not the property of being able to making someone addicted.

 

[swan_song1973]

lol, beat.

 

[Sulkdodds]

It is manifestedly addictive.

 

[NeptuneUK]

 

[Escaep]

It is addictingly addictive.

 

[Dekstar]

Addicting infers there is something that inherently makes anyone who comes in contact with it addicted.

Addictive suggests that some people might get addicted to it.

 

[Iron Kat]

"Addicting" isn't even in my little Oxford English Dictionary that I have here (I always keep it by my desk) so the word is definitely addictive.

 

[Vegeta897]

"Addicting" isn't even in my little Oxford English Dictionary that I have here (I always keep it by my desk) so the word is definitely addictive.

Well, neither is any verb ending in -ing. You have to look up the root word.

 

[Jintor]

That's probably what Kat did.

 

[Vegeta897]

So, Iron Kat couldn't find 'addict' in the dictionary?

 

[Dekstar]

You can't blame her, she's from Manchester.

 

[Krynn72]

A zing and a BA-ZING!

 

[Naudian]

I bet the people that chose addicting feel silly.

Zing?

 

[Sheepo]

ZANG!

I feel like a dick.

 

[Iron Kat]

You can't blame her, she's from Manchester.

OI! I take great offence from that! :flame:

 

[Atomic_Piggy]

Addicting is for ****sacks.

 

[Ennui]

this is weird, I was reading a discussion about this in a thread on SA yesterday. It's "addictive" as an adjective, "addicting" is a verb form. Using addicting as an adjective is wrong afaik.

 

[Commander Xillian]

Another person the day said "He stuffed up, how embarrassment". Shouldn't that be "He stuffed up, how embarrassing"

yo bitches dont know how to english well.

I ****ing Rofl'ed. If there was a rep button, I would rep you every day for those. You too neptuneuk!

 

[Dekstar]

OI! I take great offence from that! :flame:

That was the point. Thanks for making me have to point out my own insults

 

[Iron Kat]

*ignores Dekstar's jibe above*
I have asked my dad if the word "addicting" exists and see it doesn't. He has two degrees, one from Oxford.
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