I wonder if my professor of the Programming Languages course at university would laugh or cry at such a definition.

I expect that everybody doing this job has a CS or equivalent degree and knows the difference between strong / weak and static / dynamic typing. Reading other comments here demonstrates this is not the case. This is not a bad thing (luckily we only need a screen and a keyboard) but hopefully they'll have learned something new today.

Btw, there is a lot I don't know despite my degree. No hard feelings.