"alien word" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when you want to refer to a word that is unfamiliar or unfamiliar to the language you are using. For example, "I don't recognize the alien word 'fjord', what does it mean?".
When eight months pregnant, she created a blog site for me, which I used only once because I could not master the alien word processing program.
You see, many moons ago, football clubs had pride – an alien word these days – and managers, chairmen and chief executives would rather save face than go sniffing around one of their cast-offs.
"Basil then was no more than the name of bachelor uncles, courgette was printed in italics as an alien word, and few of us knew how to eat spaghetti or pick a globe artichoke to pieces".
In the new translation by David Edgar, the alien word "trolls" has been perhaps wisely eliminated, but I wish Mr. Edgar hadn't made the familiar mistake of misusing the phrase "begging the question," which is jarring in this high-culture context.
What if the alien word "sarcopenia" or a friendlier euphemism became as familiar to the public as ED has become?
My English Words was about the way those initially soulless and alien words begin to assert their familiarity, bringing with them their entire manners, their clothes, and the way they swim in clouds "above the steam of kettles".
If alien words could kill, English might not have survived the Norman conquest.
At every stage, you are jostled along by reports of your ongoing accomplishments thirty thousand steps taken, fifty alien words collected, ten pirate ships dogfought.
In the process, he has assembled an intriguing lexicon -- an idiosyncratic patois that mixes human idioms with alien words like "N'Luuura" and "thripp".
That is, alien words are presented in a didactic manner which inevitably destroys the student's spontaneous emotional reaction or discovery that is prerequisite to enjoying and understanding poetry.
At most, a conservative desire to reserve the word "marriage" for the heterosexual pertains.Tim Berney HoustonThe German roots of EnglishSIR – Your article about "the vain battle to promote German" concluded that, "if alien words could kill, English might not have survived the Norman conquest" ("Signs of the Zeitgeist", May 29th).
