'Addicting' - is it the right word?

[Gunner 51]

Capcha: Oh, really?

Lol

OT: I use the same mentality when people ask what love, art, friendship, marriage, respect, or whatever is: words are just words. They have whatever connotation we choose to give them. Getting bogged down on the difference between "compulsion" and "addiction" is fairly stupid in my opinion; English is a living language after all. (unless you're Sarah Palin, in which case "refudiate" is not a fucking word! GAH!)

Meaning and definition are strange things. When it comes to certain things like love, respect, god and even mercy, I couldn't describe them without getting philosophical. Perhaps they are more ideas rather than having a single meaning.

But anyhow, before I get bogged down in my own musings... Making words up like addicting when a perfectly good and currently exisiting word adequately describes something is just plain superfluous and a bit silly in my opinion.

As for Sarah Palin, I wouldn't pay too much attention to her - she's as thick as two short planks. (Though it doesn't stop me from laughing at George Bush-isms.)

 

[x EvilErmine x]

God help me but i think i must be sick in the head or have something seriously wrong with me, but does anyone else find the woman (Sarah Palin) quite hot? i mean i vigorously oppose nearly all of what she stands for but still.....i would totally hit that.

OT
addicting is a stupid word, it just sounds cumbersome and inelegant to me. I don't care if it's technically correct, i would never use it.

 

[Stall]

Oh, the Oxford English Dictionary says addicting an adjective, so the thread is over.