[Haskell-cafe] Sugestion for a Haskell mascot

[Aapo Lehtinen]

Peter Verswyvelen wrote:
> In Dutch it is "luiaard' and that also means "lazy person".
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> On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 2:52 PM, Deniz Dogan 
> <deniz.a.m.dogan at gmail.com <mailto:deniz.a.m.dogan at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     2009/3/11 minh thu <noteed at gmail.com <mailto:noteed at gmail.com>>:
>     > 2009/3/11 Bulat Ziganshin <bulat.ziganshin at gmail.com
>     <mailto:bulat.ziganshin at gmail.com>>:
>     >> Hello Wolfgang,
>     >>
>     >> Wednesday, March 11, 2009, 1:06:37 PM, you wrote:
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>     >>>> Hehe, I love it. Sloth is a synonym for Lazyness in English
>     too, and
>     >>>> they're so freaking cute... :)
>     >>
>     >>> Same in German: The german “Faultier” means “lazy animal”.
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>     >> russian too, if that matter. i was really amazed by this idea.
>     >> pure, lazy and fun! :)
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>     > Same in french : 'paresseux' just means lazy.
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>     > Thu
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>     In Swedish it translates to "late walker" (?) and in Turkish it's
>     "lazy animal".
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>     Deniz
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Meaning is same in Finnish, "laiskiainen", where "laiska" translates to 
"lazy".