I say we reserve ergonomically designed for those products that truly deserve it and not cheapen it by frivolous application. The loss of the word foreign from our vocabulary. I must have been asleep for about a decade. It wasn t all that long ago that foreign was a totally acceptable word. There are still a few vestiges of the word, but they are quickly disappearing.
Most universities have a department of foreign languages.
Senator Jesse Helms from my beloved state of North Carolina is the chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Recently, however, it is as if foreign has become a dirty word, implying some degree of condescending superiority. It has been replaced with a trio of words that have a kinder, gentler ring to them. The first is international. My university has exchange programs with international universities.