>>The dictionary says:
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>>Adjective: international
>> 1. Concerning or belonging to all or at least two or more nations
>> 2. From or between other countries
>>
>>Homework: give an example of one international address.
>
>The address by President Bush at the NATO summit was carried live by radio and TV to places around the world, so it was one "international address" < S >

Fine. Now deliver some mail to that address :)

>Isn't English grand?!?!

Sure is. It even has a word "foreign" in its dictionary, which seems to have become politically incorrect. I have no idea why. I know I'm myself a foreigner here, and my address back home is a foreign address when seen from here. For reasons unknown, it has become an international address, as in "we don't ship to international addresses". My family is accidentally international (we are a mix), but that has nothing to do with the address of our house, because the address remains the same when we're not there.

I'm content with being a foreigner, aka "legal alien", the word's OK with me. What else would I be called, "international national"? Just like the Americans of African origin are now given an intercontinental name, which then leaves the European Americans short - they don't get to have a special PC name.

So, to general public, I'd like to rephrase the question: what's wrong with the word "foreign"?