Is the sentence “I'm strange to this neighbourhood” correct?
I don't know which to choose, "new" or "strange" to complete the following sentence.
I'm _____ to this neighbourhood.
A correct answer seems to be "new". But why "strange" is wrong?
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I don't know which to choose, "new" or "strange" to complete the following sentence.
I'm _____ to this neighbourhood.
A correct answer seems to be "new". But why "strange" is wrong?
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A stranger would be OK, with the same sense. idioms.thefreedictionary.com/stranger+to
– Alex_ander
4 hours ago
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Strange will do as well but with a touch of poetic licence: I feel I am strange to all but the birds of America. (John James Audubon)
– Mv Log
4 hours ago
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Strange is not wrong. It carries the sense of being a stranger, someone in an place that is foreign to him/her.
– Ronald Sole
2 hours ago
@RonaldSole: The word strange might not be syntactically "wrong", but idiomatically I can't think of any contexts where a native speaker would use the construction X is strange to Y. The nearest I can come up with is things like That seems strange to me.
– FumbleFingers
9 mins ago
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I don't know which to choose, "new" or "strange" to complete the following sentence.
I'm _____ to this neighbourhood.
A correct answer seems to be "new". But why "strange" is wrong?
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I don't know which to choose, "new" or "strange" to complete the following sentence.
I'm _____ to this neighbourhood.
A correct answer seems to be "new". But why "strange" is wrong?
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A stranger would be OK, with the same sense. idioms.thefreedictionary.com/stranger+to
– Alex_ander
4 hours ago
1
Strange will do as well but with a touch of poetic licence: I feel I am strange to all but the birds of America. (John James Audubon)
– Mv Log
4 hours ago
1
Strange is not wrong. It carries the sense of being a stranger, someone in an place that is foreign to him/her.
– Ronald Sole
2 hours ago
@RonaldSole: The word strange might not be syntactically "wrong", but idiomatically I can't think of any contexts where a native speaker would use the construction X is strange to Y. The nearest I can come up with is things like That seems strange to me.
– FumbleFingers
9 mins ago
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A stranger would be OK, with the same sense. idioms.thefreedictionary.com/stranger+to
– Alex_ander
4 hours ago
1
Strange will do as well but with a touch of poetic licence: I feel I am strange to all but the birds of America. (John James Audubon)
– Mv Log
4 hours ago
1
Strange is not wrong. It carries the sense of being a stranger, someone in an place that is foreign to him/her.
– Ronald Sole
2 hours ago
@RonaldSole: The word strange might not be syntactically "wrong", but idiomatically I can't think of any contexts where a native speaker would use the construction X is strange to Y. The nearest I can come up with is things like That seems strange to me.
– FumbleFingers
9 mins ago
1
1
A stranger would be OK, with the same sense. idioms.thefreedictionary.com/stranger+to
– Alex_ander
4 hours ago
A stranger would be OK, with the same sense. idioms.thefreedictionary.com/stranger+to
– Alex_ander
4 hours ago
1
1
Strange will do as well but with a touch of poetic licence: I feel I am strange to all but the birds of America. (John James Audubon)
– Mv Log
4 hours ago
Strange will do as well but with a touch of poetic licence: I feel I am strange to all but the birds of America. (John James Audubon)
– Mv Log
4 hours ago
1
1
Strange is not wrong. It carries the sense of being a stranger, someone in an place that is foreign to him/her.
– Ronald Sole
2 hours ago
Strange is not wrong. It carries the sense of being a stranger, someone in an place that is foreign to him/her.
– Ronald Sole
2 hours ago
@RonaldSole: The word strange might not be syntactically "wrong", but idiomatically I can't think of any contexts where a native speaker would use the construction X is strange to Y. The nearest I can come up with is things like That seems strange to me.
– FumbleFingers
9 mins ago
@RonaldSole: The word strange might not be syntactically "wrong", but idiomatically I can't think of any contexts where a native speaker would use the construction X is strange to Y. The nearest I can come up with is things like That seems strange to me.
– FumbleFingers
9 mins ago
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I'm _____ to this neighbourhood.
Because the sentence has been constructed for you, you should be able to see that it describes your relationship to the neighbourhood, not the other way around.
The option "strange" is not correct because "strange" in the context of being somewhere new means "unusual" or "odd" because of your own unfamiliarity with it. Saying "I'm strange to this neighbourhood" would mean that it is you who is strange, not the neighbourhood.
You could say:
This neighbourhood is strange to me.
Because the sentence has been reversed it shows that the neighbourhood seems strange to you because you are unfamiliar with it.
You could also say:
I'm a stranger to this neighbourhood.
or
I'm unfamiliar with this neighbourhood.
The answer to your 'fill-in-the-blank' question though has to be:
I'm new to this neighbourhood.
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Two different meanings
I'm new to this neighbourhood means that you recently arrived there.
I'm strange to this neighbourhood means that are are strange, odd, peculiar, curious, unusual, in the opinions of people in the neighbourhood, at least it means that you are different than them, than the usual person in the neighbourhood.
You could say I'm a stranger to this neighbourhood, which means people in the neighbourhood don't know you yet, or don't trust you yet, or they don't consider you one of their own.
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I'm _____ to this neighbourhood.
Because the sentence has been constructed for you, you should be able to see that it describes your relationship to the neighbourhood, not the other way around.
The option "strange" is not correct because "strange" in the context of being somewhere new means "unusual" or "odd" because of your own unfamiliarity with it. Saying "I'm strange to this neighbourhood" would mean that it is you who is strange, not the neighbourhood.
You could say:
This neighbourhood is strange to me.
Because the sentence has been reversed it shows that the neighbourhood seems strange to you because you are unfamiliar with it.
You could also say:
I'm a stranger to this neighbourhood.
or
I'm unfamiliar with this neighbourhood.
The answer to your 'fill-in-the-blank' question though has to be:
I'm new to this neighbourhood.
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I'm _____ to this neighbourhood.
Because the sentence has been constructed for you, you should be able to see that it describes your relationship to the neighbourhood, not the other way around.
The option "strange" is not correct because "strange" in the context of being somewhere new means "unusual" or "odd" because of your own unfamiliarity with it. Saying "I'm strange to this neighbourhood" would mean that it is you who is strange, not the neighbourhood.
You could say:
This neighbourhood is strange to me.
Because the sentence has been reversed it shows that the neighbourhood seems strange to you because you are unfamiliar with it.
You could also say:
I'm a stranger to this neighbourhood.
or
I'm unfamiliar with this neighbourhood.
The answer to your 'fill-in-the-blank' question though has to be:
I'm new to this neighbourhood.
answered 2 hours ago
AstralbeeAstralbee
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I'm _____ to this neighbourhood.
Because the sentence has been constructed for you, you should be able to see that it describes your relationship to the neighbourhood, not the other way around.
The option "strange" is not correct because "strange" in the context of being somewhere new means "unusual" or "odd" because of your own unfamiliarity with it. Saying "I'm strange to this neighbourhood" would mean that it is you who is strange, not the neighbourhood.
You could say:
This neighbourhood is strange to me.
Because the sentence has been reversed it shows that the neighbourhood seems strange to you because you are unfamiliar with it.
You could also say:
I'm a stranger to this neighbourhood.
or
I'm unfamiliar with this neighbourhood.
The answer to your 'fill-in-the-blank' question though has to be:
I'm new to this neighbourhood.
answered 2 hours ago
AstralbeeAstralbee
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I'm _____ to this neighbourhood.
Because the sentence has been constructed for you, you should be able to see that it describes your relationship to the neighbourhood, not the other way around.
The option "strange" is not correct because "strange" in the context of being somewhere new means "unusual" or "odd" because of your own unfamiliarity with it. Saying "I'm strange to this neighbourhood" would mean that it is you who is strange, not the neighbourhood.
You could say:
This neighbourhood is strange to me.
Because the sentence has been reversed it shows that the neighbourhood seems strange to you because you are unfamiliar with it.
You could also say:
I'm a stranger to this neighbourhood.
or
I'm unfamiliar with this neighbourhood.
The answer to your 'fill-in-the-blank' question though has to be:
I'm new to this neighbourhood.
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Two different meanings
I'm new to this neighbourhood means that you recently arrived there.
I'm strange to this neighbourhood means that are are strange, odd, peculiar, curious, unusual, in the opinions of people in the neighbourhood, at least it means that you are different than them, than the usual person in the neighbourhood.
You could say I'm a stranger to this neighbourhood, which means people in the neighbourhood don't know you yet, or don't trust you yet, or they don't consider you one of their own.
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Two different meanings
I'm new to this neighbourhood means that you recently arrived there.
I'm strange to this neighbourhood means that are are strange, odd, peculiar, curious, unusual, in the opinions of people in the neighbourhood, at least it means that you are different than them, than the usual person in the neighbourhood.
You could say I'm a stranger to this neighbourhood, which means people in the neighbourhood don't know you yet, or don't trust you yet, or they don't consider you one of their own.
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Two different meanings
I'm new to this neighbourhood means that you recently arrived there.
I'm strange to this neighbourhood means that are are strange, odd, peculiar, curious, unusual, in the opinions of people in the neighbourhood, at least it means that you are different than them, than the usual person in the neighbourhood.
You could say I'm a stranger to this neighbourhood, which means people in the neighbourhood don't know you yet, or don't trust you yet, or they don't consider you one of their own.
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Two different meanings
I'm new to this neighbourhood means that you recently arrived there.
I'm strange to this neighbourhood means that are are strange, odd, peculiar, curious, unusual, in the opinions of people in the neighbourhood, at least it means that you are different than them, than the usual person in the neighbourhood.
You could say I'm a stranger to this neighbourhood, which means people in the neighbourhood don't know you yet, or don't trust you yet, or they don't consider you one of their own.
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A stranger would be OK, with the same sense. idioms.thefreedictionary.com/stranger+to
– Alex_ander
4 hours ago
1
Strange will do as well but with a touch of poetic licence: I feel I am strange to all but the birds of America. (John James Audubon)
– Mv Log
4 hours ago
1
Strange is not wrong. It carries the sense of being a stranger, someone in an place that is foreign to him/her.
– Ronald Sole
2 hours ago
@RonaldSole: The word strange might not be syntactically "wrong", but idiomatically I can't think of any contexts where a native speaker would use the construction X is strange to Y. The nearest I can come up with is things like That seems strange to me.
– FumbleFingers
9 mins ago