For the love of God. The word is "addictIVE".
"AddictING" is not a word.
Yes, the English language is a beautiful flowing river of change. I like that, I really do. The creation of new words is a wonderful thing. I celebrate the fact that "Trekkie" is actually a word in the dictionary (and technically, the only term for a fan that is. Win.).
But really? Addicting? It's not a new word. It's not the invention of something that was required, because there was no comparable word. There is.
Addicting exists simply because there is a large enough population that just don't know the correct form of the verb "addict".
Mass stupidity has started shaping our language, and I am not ok with that. Keep going down that road, and soon, words will be spelled phonetically, grammar will be all but lost, all those great little quirks of the English language will disappear....
I'd rather not get to a point where The Hobbit reads like Shakespeare, Shakespeare reads like Latin, and the latest addition to the shelves of Chapters is written entirely in tweet-speak.
Come on, people. Stop.
Wait - the people who are incorrectly using it will probably find this blog indecipherable. Crap.
hai gurl! OMG da wurd is additIVE kay? U mus be stoopid not 2 no - mak me LULZ when u say dat!
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