From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: Brad_Filippone@yahoo.com   
   Subject: Re: Define "alien"   
      
   On Aug 14, 11:10apm, David Hatunen  wrote:   
   > On Sun, 14 Aug 2011 21:49:51 +0200, Steve Hayes wrote:   
   > > On Sun, 14 Aug 2011 18:18:00 +0200, Akira Norimaki   
   > >  wrote:   
   >   
   > >>Steve Hayes wrote:   
   > >>> Around here there are often campaigns against alien vegetation.   
   >   
   > >>Here though the word is used as adjective and that's a different matter.   
   > >>If "alien" as a noun can be seen only as a "creature from outer space"   
   > >>we can't say the same for the adjective that retains its "broad meaning"   
   > >>in any situation. I may be influenced by my native language but I've   
   > >>always thought so even for the English language.   
   >   
   > > I still have, somewhere, my "Aliens Registration Certificate".   
   >   
   > > I am not a creature from outer space, and I've never been to outer   
   > > space.   
   >   
   > > When I went to study in Britain in 1966 I was an alien and registered as   
   > > such under the Aliens Act of 1953.   
   >   
   > > My possession of the certificate showed that I was a legal, as opposed   
   > > to an illegal alien, but I was an alien none the less, noun, not   
   > > adjective.   
   >   
   > > "Alien" as a noun does NOT mean only a creature from outer space.   
   >   
   > > I am not, and never have been, a creature from outer space, but I have   
   > > been an alien.   
   >   
   > I guess, technically, the year I lived in Canada as a landed immigration   
   > I was also an alien. come to think of it, I go into Mexico several times   
   > a year at which point I become an alien.   
   >   
   But did you sprout pointed ears on those occasions?   
   Brad   
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