Hot take: Blahaj is a better pronunciation because it is derpy like our beloved shonk.
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Ok but like...who cares? Does anyone actually verbally discuss lemmy instances?
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.
so... blohaj then?
Å is pronounced almost like "au" in English. Like the start of Austin or Australia.
Nah, it's blah-hog. And nobody can convince me otherwise.
Blahge
I always pronounce it blähaj
that's the german gassy version
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.
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
“Blow High” is what I was told, though that had nothing to do with the sharks name ;)
"Blow high" gets really close to the Swedish pronunciation. Or at least the closest that you can get in English.
(English hates long monophthongs so you can't get the same vowel as that [o:] represented by ⟨å⟩ in Swedish. "Blow" has [əʊ̯] or [oʊ̯] depending on the dialect.)
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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.
Just hold down A!
Holds down A on desktop keyboard aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
TBF on desktop I could install a program (or possibly already have) that does the job, I just never got around to it.
Technically you should write it blaahaj instead (if writing Norwegian or Danish, that is). Before the adoption of the Swedish å, aa used to be used in Norway and Denmark for the same sound.
So that's why it looks similar to a or ä. I've always wondered that if it makes an o sound, why doesn't it look like an O.
yeah, ä and æ get transcribed as ae and is a different sound.
Aj kudd traj tu eksplejn itt, bøtt Aj'll dsjøst lett the "æøå" viddijåo du the tåking. År singing, Aj gess.
Also it sounds more like the vowel group in the word 'awl' than an actual 'o'. Bit tricky to describe, really
Historically, 'Å' was an 'A' with an additional 'a' on top. This has evolved into becoming the '°'. Similarly, 'Ä' was an 'A' with an 'e' on top, which evolved into becoming two dots.
Interestingly, these umlauts are treated as extra characters in the Nordics but in German they aren't. That's why Swedish dictionaries are sorted from 'A-Ö' while German ones are 'A-Z'. So in order to find German Ärger or Swedish ängen, you need to look at different spots in the dictionary ('Ä' -> 'Ae' (1st letter of the German alphabet) vs. 'Ä' (28th letter of the Swedish alphabet).
Just write Blauhai
Dieser Hai gehört nun der Bundesrepublik Deutschland.
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I will pronounce it how i please. Bloyhagg 😤
Personally I prefer to pronounce it "bog hag".
This isn't Tiktok I don't have to know how to say it right.
This is Lemmy, it's text-based, and technically the domain is "blahaj" because "å" isn't a valid character in URLs.
Finally, grammar and spelling policing sucks.
Wrong actually, Unicode URLs have been a thing for quite some time now, including domain names.
Well, the instance is still blahaj regardless of what Unicode URLs can do. So it's correct to skip the å because it's not on the actual current url.
Internationalized domain names are stored in the Domain Name System (DNS) as ASCII strings using Punycode transcription.
It's a workaround, not actual support.
If we're gonna be that nitpicky, the entire internet is a workaround
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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.
Well, now you tell me!
Babaj :3
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