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Re:A new Einstein cross is discovered by Krokku on Monday March 25, 2019 @11:15AM (#19483210)
and it is not a kvasar, which is unusual
Re:A new Einstein cross is discovered by _verandaguy on Monday March 25, 2019 @11:29AM (#19483369)
Assuming you mean quasar here.

It's unusual, but only because there's such a small set of Einstein Crosses -- it's not particularly significant that the lensed object is another galaxy.

Re:A new Einstein cross is discovered by cdelsolar on Monday March 25, 2019 @11:27AM (#19483340)
what is a kvasar
Re:A new Einstein cross is discovered by jbf1001 on Monday March 25, 2019 @11:31AM (#19483394)
I had to look it up too, it's the German word for Quasar.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasar.

Re:A new Einstein cross is discovered by bhaak on Monday March 25, 2019 @11:41AM (#19483500)
That's wrong, Quasar is also the German word for Quasar.

But it looks like that the Scandinavian and the Slavic languages use the form "kvasar".

Re:A new Einstein cross is discovered by oska on Tuesday March 26, 2019 @12:25AM (#19489293)
Wiktionary is good for finding what languages a particular sequence of characters appears in.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/kvasar

According to that entry, it appears in both Swedish and Czech (as an alternate spelling).

Given the commenter's username is krokku and the fact that "krok ku" means "(a) step forward/towards" in Czech, I think we can assume that the commenter is Czech.

Re:A new Einstein cross is discovered by bhaak on Tuesday March 26, 2019 @04:00AM (#19489969)
Two entries are not that much. On Wikipedia you can look at the list of articles in other languages.

Or go directly to Wikidata https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q83373

Re:A new Einstein cross is discovered by oska on Tuesday March 26, 2019 @04:15AM (#19490028)
Ah, interesting. So I see it also appears in Danish, Estonian and Norwegian.

But with the additional clue from the username I'm still betting on Czech.

Re:A new Einstein cross is discovered by ableal on Monday March 25, 2019 @02:26PM (#19485231)
Sometimes I go to google translate to hear words pronounced, e.g. https://translate.google.com/#view=home&op=translate&sl=de&t...

(I hear "kvasar" and "cantoom" for quasar and quantum)

Re:A new Einstein cross is discovered by coinerone on Monday March 25, 2019 @11:43AM (#19483523)
"Kvasar" is Czech i think.
Re:A new Einstein cross is discovered by dan_hawkins on Monday March 25, 2019 @11:30AM (#19483379)
It's quasar - OP is probably not a native speaker.
Re:A new Einstein cross is discovered by UI_at_80x24 on Monday March 25, 2019 @11:37AM (#19483459)
I can guarantee that OP is infact a native speaker. English however might not be OP's native language. =)
Re:A new Einstein cross is discovered by jamesrcole on Monday March 25, 2019 @11:51AM (#19483605)
But given that the rest of the OP's comment was in English, it is natural to interpret the GPs comment as meaning "not a native speaker of the language they wrote the comment in (English)".
Re:A new Einstein cross is discovered by twic on Monday March 25, 2019 @12:05PM (#19483732)
It's a type of supermassive object formed in the early universe from the fermentation of rye bread.
Re:A new Einstein cross is discovered by msla on Monday March 25, 2019 @12:31PM (#19483997)
> It's a type of supermassive object formed in the early universe from the fermentation of rye bread.

Stop being kvazy!