dakotafred Note all: The word (?) is desertIFication, the one just as bad as the other, one of those bureaucratic Amos 'n' Andy abominations that are creeping into the language. I was sorry to find it had made my dictionary as of 1988 already.
Note all: The word (?) is desertIFication, the one just as bad as the other, one of those bureaucratic Amos 'n' Andy abominations that are creeping into the language. I was sorry to find it had made my dictionary as of 1988 already.
RE: The abuse of our language.
I like seeing the theft of a 5-cent piece called a "nickelectomy".
ndbprrdesertication? Is that where you get to choose ice cream or cheesecake? I guess Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Argentina, Australia and the USA RRs.across deserts are not real.
The deserts are real. Desertication is the expansion of these deserts into the bordering areas that had a bit more rainfall and vegetation. The prime example of this occurrence is the expansion of the Sahara further south into areas that formerly could support herding and some farming.
Not a new issue!
An Fengjie, an official with China's State Forestry Administration who specializes in soil erosion control, said the plateau region suffered from desertification long before the railway was built.
Never too old to have a happy childhood!
China's Qinghai-Tibet Railway, the world's highest rail system, is being threatened by desertification on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau as a result of global warming, experts concluded after conducting a probe.About 443 km of the 1,956-km railway are in areas affected by desertification, including 103 km that lie in seriously desertified areas, Wang Jinchang, a senior engineer with the Qinghai-Tibet Railway Co, said on Monday...........
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90882/7892989.html
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