Talk:decomposited

This is a non-word, and should be either deleted or marked as 'Chinglish'. Any disagreement should be supported by use of the alleged word in reputable sources by native speakers. —DIV — This unsigned comment was added by 120.17.64.125 (talk).

Wiktionary is a descriptive dictionary: we describe language as it's actually used, not as "reputable sources" say it should be used. While it's true that much of the usage in Google Books is by people with names that suggest they're not native speakers, there are more than enough uses there to satisfy our Criteria for inclusion even if you remove all possibly non-native speakers (I found one in a reference work dating to 1766, in England). Also, describing it as Chinglish doesn't work, since the non-native speakers aren't all Chinese. It's not that common, but that seems to be because it's mostly used in highly technical contexts (which probably explains the number of non-native speakers, since the international scientific literature in English written by scientists from all over the world). Statements that a term "doesn't exist" or "isn't a word" always catch my attention because they're almost always wrong- people who say such things don't understand the true extent of a language. Chuck Entz (talk) 18:52, 10 November 2017 (UTC)