Worldometers
Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2013 11:21 am
This is not a word...
"Desertification"
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Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2013 3:29 pm
Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2013 3:30 pm
...apparently it is!wurlycorner wrote:This is not a word...
"Desertification"
Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2013 3:32 pm
It is a real word 
Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2013 4:13 pm
Surely it's only a word in the same way that "transportation" 
is though? i.e. A completely unecessary/superfluous word created by the yanks that gets exported and for some reason then included in the english dictionary?
NB: that is NOT a general xenophobic comment at yanks (in the same way Donald makes them about the Scots
) it's purely about how infuriatingly the language gets bastardised over there!!!
is though? i.e. A completely unecessary/superfluous word created by the yanks that gets exported and for some reason then included in the english dictionary?NB: that is NOT a general xenophobic comment at yanks (in the same way Donald makes them about the Scots
) it's purely about how infuriatingly the language gets bastardised over there!!!Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2013 4:26 pm
It's just as valid as mummification, with the suffix describing a process, with mummified being the end result.
I had the same argument with a lecturer last year that tried to tell me gyrencephalization wasn't a word. (Don't even mention the z because I have the right answer for that
)
I had the same argument with a lecturer last year that tried to tell me gyrencephalization wasn't a word. (Don't even mention the z because I have the right answer for that
)Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2013 5:03 pm
165 years till the end of the oil well I wont be here 
Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2013 5:21 pm
That's theoretical though - the cost of extracting oil goes up exponentially though over time though...
Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2013 10:07 pm
Sad that the figure for "New Book Titles" is the only one in the Society and Media section to be virtually static.
Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2013 10:09 pm
yeah I actually sat and waitedSailor wrote:Sad that the figure for "New Book Titles" is the only one in the Society and Media section to be virtually static.