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Superb survival city-builder Against the Storm is finally finished and released (www.pcgamer.com)
submitted 11 months ago by Goronmon to c/games
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[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Honestly, you're wandering into prescriptive vs descriptive grammar on this one. How we use words changes over time. For example, it's not nearly as big of a deal to to end sentences with a preposition anymore.

No need to be pedantic, the meaning is clear.

Addicting, especially for non-professional usage, is perfectly fine these days.

But I tend to be a descriptionist.

[–] thorbot 5 points 11 months ago

Addicting is a perfectly cromulent term to use in place of addictive

[–] ABCDE 2 points 11 months ago

Incorrect usage and descriptivism are still separable; it's still not a word (yet), although that is arguable of course.