From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.5 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, PP_MIME_FAKE_ASCII_TEXT autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,66bc6b039f1e005d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Anders Wirzenius" Subject: Re: Three simple questions Date: 2000/10/13 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 680902661 References: <2BED68CA963D6D55.A78776F656DA0452.75A61ED22116F1B6@lp.airnews.net> <39E47530.EB5FE94B@averstar.com> <200010120307433041802@t4o921p87.telia.com> X-Priority: 3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 X-Trace: read2.inet.fi 971422708 194.251.142.2 (Fri, 13 Oct 2000 10:38:28 EET DST) Organization: Sonera corp Internet services X-MSMail-Priority: Normal NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 10:38:28 EET DST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-10-13T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: "Bjarne B�ckstr�m" wrote in message news:200010120307433041802@t4o921p87.telia.com... > Tucker Taft 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