Jun 20, 2011
doinwork: Who the hell is saying Heroin is addicting? I understand that this is grammar and not linguistics, but if we’re talking good and evil, it does a lot more harm than good to tell someone the way they would naturally express something is evil. It used to be “wrong” to write a lot of things. For example: Whenever one says “addicting”, one really means “addictive”.

doinwork:

Who the hell is saying Heroin is addicting?

I understand that this is grammar and not linguistics, but if we’re talking good and evil, it does a lot more harm than good to tell someone the way they would naturally express something is evil. It used to be “wrong” to write a lot of things.

For example: Whenever one says “addicting”, one really means “addictive”.

(via doinwork)

About