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“Blow High” is what I was told, though that had nothing to do with the sharks name ;)
Nah, it’s blah-hog. And nobody can convince me otherwise.
It’s spelled blahaj because I, like most people, don’t have an å (yeah, copied that out of the title) on my keyboard. Unless you want us to write blohaj instead, I guess.
Blåhaj.
I hold down the ‘a’ key and you can select it on Gboard. But your point stands, I don’t expect everyone to make the effort of finding alternate language options.
Also if I’m typing it, I’m referring to the domain name, which I don’t think allows special characters. (Just thinking of registered DNS names allowing all ISO character sets, that would be a scammers paradise.)
ツ.gay
e: it’s real i promise
They do now! Blåhaj.world (might not work in old browsers)
AfaIk, domain names may include special characters since a while.
Just write Blauhai
Dieser Hai gehört nun der Bundesrepublik Deutschland.
Blouhaai if you’re from South Africa.
Ok but like…who cares? Does anyone actually verbally discuss lemmy instances?
I named mine Blahaj just so I negate any pronunciation issues. Like Data from star trek
Ah, but I named my Blåhaj blahaj because I like to mispronounce it
Well I think you’re a blåhard and a pedant!
(Not really, I just wanted to write blåhard, love you ❤️)
Edit: spelling =)
A pendant?! How dare you!
Curse my autocorrect! I could swear I typed no ‘n’ XD
Well being a pendant would be pretty boring. Just hanging on some necklace for all eternity.
so… blohaj then?
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I’m afraid if I pronounce it “Blowhigh” it will come off the same way as being that one person who pronounces “gyro” with a silent g at a greek restaurant. Like it’s correct but the exonym seems to already have stuck at this point.
Å is pronounced almost like “au” in English. Like the start of Austin or Australia.
So is it [bloːhaj]? I was trying to say [bloːhɑj] but [ɑ] feels perhaps odd next to the glide?
Completely an inference from https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/Swedish so I may have fucked up the phonotactics
According to the Wikipedia page the phonetics would be [ˈblôːhaj]
Or as one of my twins says it “Hello hi”
You sent me down one hell of a rabbit hole 😭 At first I was confused by the tone marker, but it turns out Swedish is a pitch accent language. So that clears things up xd
But before I even got to that, the section on vowels caught my eye. Apparently, /oː/ can be realized as [ɤʷː], [oə] (Central Standard), or [ɔə] (Gotland?). So apparently [blɤ̂ʷːhaj], [bloəhaj], and [blɔəhaj] are all valid realizations of /blôːhaj/ (varying in dialect)? Thankfully BLÅHAJ has no rhotics or i wouldve started getting into the literature
Hot take: Blahaj is a better pronunciation because it is derpy like our beloved shonk.
å is more like “aww”, as in “aww, look at the cute shork”
I mean it’s being pronounced by Swedes so it should be. it’d be written blåhai in Norwegian but pronounced the same.
Also, if you want to get the correct Danish pronunciation, try pronouncing it the Swedish way while blackout drunk with someone’s ball sack in your mouth.
Norway 200 Years! - (Danish Language Explained)
Others are split, whether Danes having a frog or a hot potato in their mouth while speaking.
