>>>"international" - now used predominantly to mean "foreign" (as in "we ship to international addresses", or "international languages"), while you used it in its obsolete meaning
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>>International obsolete? That's weird. I'd say it's far more correct to use international here than to use foreign. Foreign is used by an inlander, not by an outlander, to indicate all other countries or non-residents. The UT is not a foreign forum, I sincerely hope.
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>I agree. I think Dragan's flawed in that he gets to see Americanisms like that, whereas they're only used in the "English-speaking" world where people try to emulate their expreesions, such as:
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>"internalise", "I am good [well]", et al.

I've seen a shelf in the local library where it says "international languages", no less. On the shelf there are books in Russian (OK, sort of, as many people of other nations may know the language, but not as their first one), German (really OK, as it's spoken in at least three countries), French (also multiple countries), Latin (zero countries, but still in widespread use), Spanish (lots of countries), Japanese - wait, how many nations speak Japanese? Or Hebrew? And how is English conspicuously absent from this list of international languages? It's the most international language nowadays, spoken in Britain, Ireland, Canada, USA, Australia, New Zealand and at least a dozen former colonies across Africa and Asia. Also missing was Arabic, spoken in a dozen countries.

And I'm not taking any excuse that it's a misunderstanding on the part of an illiterate moron - this is Virginia Beach Central Library, these people can't be illiterate.

The only explanation is that the officially, the word "foreign" is a no-no, and is to be replaced with "international".

Check my typing, please, I'm not seeing quite well at the moment, got a bit of an international body in my eye, probably a speck of dust.