Re:Removing Home Internet Is the Most Productive Thing I've ...
by Dunan on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @04:39AM
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It should, but English lacks a suffix for "addicted to...", so people have taken the "-holic" of "alcoholic" and reinterpreted it to fill that void. The genie is out of the bottle now, so to speak, and we will probably continue to use "-holic" for all forms of addiction as long as English is spoken.
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