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Smjörið er brætt og hveitið smátt og smátt hrært út í það, þangað til það er gengið upp í smjörið.

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Re: Smjörið er brætt og hveitið smátt og smátt hrært út í það, þangað til það er gengið upp í smjörið.

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If you are wondering: On Linux/X11, there's Ctrl+Shift+[unicde number in hexadecimal], gnome-character-map, umap or KCharMap (ت)

And now for the less serious part:

ሞሡሢ Am I the only one whom these Ethiopic characters remind of Tengwar? BTW, are there Unicode chars for Tengwar? I think there should be! (But not for Klingon, because it sucks.) I have fun wirting this on my ⌨, but ℐ∫ ᚾℍℹ⑀ not pointless? Who cares? Anyway, now we can use distinct characters for Roman numerals: Ⅰ,Ⅱ,Ⅲ,Ⅳ,Ⅴ,Ⅵ,Ⅶ,Ⅷ,Ⅹ,Ⅻ,Ⅽ,Ⅿ! Ye darn kids! Everythin we had was 7-bit ASCII, without parity, and we were damn greatful for it? You think you had it bad? I had to use Morse code for browsing porn, back in my days! And I had to etch my public key into the wall of a rotten ol' cave! We did not have this fancy-shmancy routed network, i had to remember the way from here to there all by myself!

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Re: Smjörið er brætt og hveitið smátt og smátt hrært út í það, þangað til það er gengið upp í smjörið.

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By "Classic static typing", do you mean C++/Java-style static typing, or does it include Haskell/ML-style type inference as well?

I mean the kind that will not let you create a list whose elements could be of any type.

Have you looked into optional static typing (e.g. EC4 style)? The default Array type for EC4 takes types of all kinds as well. It is a satisfying middle ground.

Re: Smjörið er brætt og hveitið smátt og smátt hrært út í það, þangað til það er gengið upp í smjörið.

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As an Icelander, I must surely ask what pushed you to use Icelandic as an example. :)

Does Icelandic have the 'th' sound? I've heard that English is the only European language with it, but if Icelandic has the written thorn, maybe you have that sound too?

Spanish seems to have 'th' as well
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