Worldometers

bb1boy · Post by **bb1boy** » Thu Sep 05, 2013 11:21 am

Some of these figures are actually quite depressing...

http://www.worldometers.info/

89 UKDM BA4 4WS (resto job!) · Post by **wurlycorner** » Thu Sep 05, 2013 3:29 pm

This is not a word...
"Desertification"

bb1boy · Post by **bb1boy** » Thu Sep 05, 2013 3:30 pm

wurlycorner wrote:This is not a word...
"Desertification"

...apparently it is!

Post by **Donald** » Thu Sep 05, 2013 3:32 pm

It is a real word

89 UKDM BA4 4WS (resto job!) · Post by **wurlycorner** » 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!!!

Post by **Donald** » 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

)

mercutio · Post by **mercutio** » Thu Sep 05, 2013 5:03 pm

165 years till the end of the oil well I wont be here

89 UKDM BA4 4WS (resto job!) · Post by **wurlycorner** » Thu Sep 05, 2013 5:21 pm

That's theoretical though - the cost of extracting oil goes up exponentially though over time though...

YouTube · Post by **Sailor** » 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.

mercutio · Post by **mercutio** » Thu Sep 05, 2013 10:09 pm

Sailor wrote:Sad that the figure for "New Book Titles" is the only one in the Society and Media section to be virtually static.

yeah I actually sat and waited