I’ve always kind of wondered how people who don’t know Swedish pronounce blåhaj, and I guess “blahage” answers that
What’s the correct way?
“blow-high” iirc
That’s actually reasonably close as far as legible English approximations go
I feel like blaw-high (where blaw is pronounced like law but with a preceding b) is closer. I don’t speak a language that has the å sound though. Nor have I ever heard anyone pronounce blåhaj.
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Swedish version is on the right side, Danish on the left. Same word, slightly different pronounciation. to listen to it pronounced, click the speaker below the text field.
Wow, I was very very wrong, thank you!
(I didn’t know google translate had pronunciations, so you taught me two things)
No problem.
I was trying to find an online Swedish site that could’ve done it, because I am trying to keep away from google products, but alas, it was the only place I could find. DeepL doesn’t have that feature.
Yeah, I’d like to know too
Next you’ll tell me that your username isn’t pronounced the same as “Janet”
I regret to inform you that it is not, in fact, pronounced the same as “Janet”.
But! In the spirit of reasonably close approximations, it’s pronounced kind of like if you said “Janet” but with a Y instead of a J. For extra points, double the N and replace the E sound with an A sound, so sort of like “yan-nat” (/ˈjænːæt/ if you’re a NERD)
Edit: and note that my username is Finnish, which you should never confuse with Swedish unless you want to make people very angry.
But seriously speaking, in case y’all don’t know, Finnish is a Uralic language which means it’s in a completely different language family than almost all Eurasian languages except Estonian, Sámi, Hungarian, and a smattering of more-or-less extinct languages in the Baltics and Russia. Swedish is closer to Kashmiri than Finnish.
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I was pronouncing it without the j before learning the correct pronunciation
That IS a FUN FACT!
I want at least 1 blåhaj, I have 0 currently :(
Blåhaj’s what
You sure it wouldn’t turn into a planet?
probably too small to be a planet, given that Pluto ain’t one and its mass is of the order of 10^22 kg.
Either Blahaj ain’t thicc enough, or we need more Blahaj.