"Bjarne B�ckstr�m" <bjarne.backstrom@telia.com> wrote in message
news:200010120307433041802@t4o921p87.telia.com...
> Tucker Taft <stt@averstar.com> wrote:
>
> [...]
> > someone claimed that "Ichbiah" was Swedish for "iceberg" and that
> > is why 90% of the complexity of Ada 83 was hidden below the surface.
>
>    Sorry to disappoint you, but "iceberg" is "isberg" in Swedish ...
> even less complex than the English version. :-)

... which leads me to annoy you with telling that the Finnish (finnish ;-)
word
for iceberg is j��vuori ( j auml auml v u o r i, maybe your screen does not
show the auml letter) which is pronounced EXACTLY
sorry, exactly, as it is written: short sound for one letter, long sound for
two letters. Just try.

Isn't the Finnish language easy ?

Anders