Babaj :3
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Ah, but I named my Blåhaj blahaj because I like to mispronounce it
But like the o in lot, or roll, or corn, or tailor, or women...?
Corn
Well, now you tell me!
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
And what does it meån?
Blåhaj = blue shark.
They asked if it moans
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.
Just write Blauhai
Blouhaai if you're from South Africa.
Dieser Hai gehört nun der Bundesrepublik Deutschland.
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.
I use Unexpected Keyboard for Android and I can easily add the ˚ modificator to my keyboard.
blåhaj.
It's unexpected but pretty convenient!
“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.)
Thanks for the info and linking the pronunciation!
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.
Internationalized domain names are stored in the Domain Name System (DNS) as ASCII strings using Punycode transcription.
It's a workaround, not actual support.
Disagree, I think it's actual support.
Who cares about the technical implementation, it works doesn't it? It is fully supported by all modern systems, you type in the Unicode URLs and you see the correct page. Just because it gets converted to some other encoding along the way doesn't mean it's somehow no longer valid. Lots of things get transcoded along the way, nobody cares about that.
å is more like “aww”, as in “aww, look at the cute shork”
Yeah, but if you had to describe it with a single letter I'd pick O.