The phrase “strongly typed” does not have one single agreed upon definitions. I’ve known that for like over a decade, since it comes up extremely often when someone is upset about people not liking x language and they have to jump to semantic debates instead of debating about real problems. I assume you’re not doing that… so I can clear things up: instead of “strongly typed”, substitute in “statically typed”.

edit: Also,

> There are no gradients of strong typing

that's flatly untrue. There certainly is a notion of 'stronger' vs 'weaker'. I don't know where you got this idea from.