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>>I remember I was wondering about this when I got here..hmm why they call it world series since its not an international competition:)
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>Technically, it is 'international' since it involves 2 countries once in a while. Canada has 2 teams and has competed in the series in the past. Hardly a World Series, I grant, but it is, in a pinch, 'international'.

Speaking of which - my gripe for the day (it's already Friday here): the word "international".

I've already seen ads where they are or are not "shipping to international addresses". I know of only one international address, which is a restaurant on the border between Slovenia and Croatia, the line going through the entrance and the kitchen. There probably are a few more international addresses like that, but I doubt they are of any interest to retailers.

Yesterday, I've seen a section in the library I haven't spotted before: "international languages". First I thought it's very funny, then that they must mean esperanto et al, but then, hey, there are languages which are shared by a few nations... pretty much the former colonial languages; those do qualify as internatinal. And Latin, spoken by no nation, but international all the same. But I think they goofed on Russian and Japanese: which other nations speak these languages? These are the national languages of Russia and Japan.

Could it be that I slept over the anouncement that made word "foreign" politically subcorect? Then, I'm an international here.