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    Quote Originally Posted by MrPedantic View Post
    Perhaps "hospital soap" and "from beginning to end" would be more likely. But "followed" would be fine – in BrE, at least.

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    You mean:

    She followed the hospital soap from beginning to end.

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    Quote Originally Posted by blouen View Post
    What do you mean?

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    noun: someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction (Example: "A news junkie")

    junkie - OneLook Dictionary Search

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    AFAICT - as far as I can tell

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    I see.

    So here's a new one:
    She's such a soap opera junkie, she has followed the Korean soap opera "Full House" from beginning to end.


    Do you have any other way of saying this?

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    Quote Originally Posted by blouen View Post
    I see.

    So here's a new one:
    She's such a soap opera junkie, she has followed the Korean soap opera "Full House" from beginning to end.


    Do you have any other way of saying this?
    be [totally/really] hooked on something

    be a soap opera addict

    be [totally/really] into something

    [probably would need an intensifier to show the same strength as the others]

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    Quote Originally Posted by blouen View Post
    I see.

    So here's a new one:
    She's such a soap opera junkie, she has followed the Korean soap opera "Full House" from beginning to end.


    Do you have any other way of saying this?
    Soap opera junkie is a noun. "Sinusubaybayan" iis a verb. I too don't know the equivalent of that word. I've been longing to know this.

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    I think followed will be the equivalent word. Add have been. Like this "I've been following full house for 3 months".

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    Quote Originally Posted by blue_jeans_vb View Post
    I think followed will be the equivalent word. Add have been. Like this "I've been following full house for 3 months".
    What I asked for Blue Jeans is "Sinubaybayan"- past and not in the continuous "Sinusubaybayan"

    We already got it and thus we used "followed" to fill in the blank.

    She's such a soap opera junkie, she has followed the Korean soap opera "Full House" from beginning to end.

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    Hello Blouen,

    Quote Originally Posted by blouen View Post
    You mean:

    She followed the hospital soap from beginning to end.
    Yes, that's it. (It's a neutral statement, and doesn't imply praise or blame.)

    Best wishes,

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    Thanks for the help guys!
    Thanks a multitude!

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