>>>>>>>And, of course, you have to convert to the appropriate units, as you are already doing.
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>>>>>>Well... I would never call miles, feet, fps, mph etc appropriate units :)
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>>>>>Is strange/foreign one word in spanish too?
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>>>>There you go http://es.thefreedictionary.com/extranjero
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>>>>Take the english translation towards the bottom
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>>>>Update - strange and foreign http://es.thefreedictionary.com/extra%c3%b1o
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>>>As I expected. Actually, same in english; "strange" is anything that's weird or not ordinary; "stranger" is an unknown or foreign person. "Foreign" was later borrowed from the French and never returned.
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>>>We have the same word but in a different set of meanings: "stran" is foreign, alien; "stranac" is a foreigner, however "strange" in the sense of weird or unusual is "čudan" - from "čudo", miracle, which is more from the verb "čuditi se", to wonder (at seeing a miracle or unusual event), then "čudak" (a strange or weird guy) etc.
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>>As to French - since it is my second language
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>>Strange is étrange http://fr.thefreedictionary.com/%c3%a9trange
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>>The first letter é with an accent means that another letter was dropped - it used to be estrange
>>( a stranger = un étranger )
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>>But why do you say that "foreign" was borrowed from French ? Don't see which french word
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>>If you take the french translation at the bottom here http://www.thefreedictionary.com/foreign the only word that is different from étrange is extérieur ( exterior )
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>>Update - yes I see : foreign: from Old French forain
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>And then there still is "la fête foraine". See Dragan the french recuperate anything they lend, you should not worry.


Yes, I see, forain = fairy (foire = fair )