• pedz@lemmy.ca
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    17 hours ago

    AFAIK there’s no equivalent word for alien in French. The concept is different. Everything coming from space is automatically extraterrestrial. If it’s coming from earth, it’s just a strange/different species or a different form of life. The vagueness of alien doesn’t translate well in French, unless we use the word ‘alien’.

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      10 hours ago

      Which is ironic, because while the modern French word was borrowed from English, the English word is from Old French.