ja' [email protected]: >Any language is alien if it's not known to you,right? qarbe'. Hol DaSovbe'chugh neH, Huj neH Holvetlh. pe'vIl HollIj rurbe'chugh Hol Huj, chaq nov Holvetlh. Wrong. If you merely don't *know* a language, it's only strange. But if a strange language is extremely unlike yours, it might be "alien." -- ghunchu'wI'