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Steg Belsky scripsit:
> "Overseas" doesn't count?
It's only in relatively recent times that foreigners all lived overseas
(from the perspective of an anglophone in England).
> In Hebrew there's Ha'aretz ('the land') and Hhutz La'aretz ('out of the
> land').
The latter sounds suspiciously like a calque on "Ausland".
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John Cowan jcowan@hidden.email http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
Most languages are dramatically underdescribed, and at least one is
dramatically overdescribed. Still other languages are simultaneously
overdescribed and underdescribed. Welsh pertains to the third category.
--Alan King