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That's me learning german. Apparently Fremdsprache means foreign language so I went "Isn't it weird that german calls other languages 'strange language?'" then I thought about my own language (portuguese) 'lingua estrangeira' which is basically the same thing haha
Since stranger comes from strange, does it mean that strange means foreign, or that foreign means strange?
Would Dr Foreign be a better surgeon than Dr Strange?
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this made me realize how weird the term feels in swedish, like in german it's "strange language" but i can't recall ever hearing it used.
We'd just say "another language" or something.