I know you’re supposed to pronounce it along the lines of “blo-hi”, but the Anglicized “blahaj” is so hard to resist!
Funny story I didn’t know it was supposed to be pronounced as blohai, until one time I was hooking up with another trans woman from tinder and she got excited when she saw my blahaj and kept pronouncing in the worst way possible (correctly but I didn’t know). I chose to not “correct” her but I was like wow weird
It bugged me so much that I googled it next morning and realized I’m the silly one
Also, the blahaj is called steve in my household and it’s the only way one shall refer to steve.
Well, I’m from Sweden so… blåhaj lol
The “å” is pronounced like the “a” in “war”, if someone from Britain was saying it. Haj is kinda like “hi”, I guess?
Distinguishing between /ˈbloːhaj/ and /ˈbloʊhaɪ/ is difficult, at least for this anglophone.
/ˈblɑːhɑːʒ/ is the meme name though
Blå balbil med blåhaj for förbi fyr och får för fort
Bluh-hazh, where “zh” is the final sound in “garage.” In IPA, that’s [bhlə’hɑʒ].
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Wait, what’s the difference between “dzh” and a “hard j”? (Assuming “zh” refers to the final sound in “garage.”) The “hard J” is just a combination of “d” and “zh”.
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there is no difference, a hard j (like in jacket) is the same thing as “dzh”, just “dzh” is more spelled out instead of just being a name for it
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Blah haj.
Thank you for reminding me about Blo hi.
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I do pronounce the “j” as a “y” sound but my “å” is def not correct, it ends up as way too “a” and not “o” enough xD
im a swede so I know it’s blåhaj but I still say it blah-hach. it’s sillier that way hehehe :3
I pronounce it Blo-hai, but ya, Bla Ha is super fun as well.
…I do also just call him Shaaaaaaaaark way too often, very fun, I do recommend
Everything from ‘blaw-high’ to ‘blah-hadge’ but it tends to trend towards simply, ‘shonk’.
Good shonk.
He has so many different pronunciations for sure! :3
/bla/ /hah/ ?
Bla as in blablablabla
haj as in hahaha
Bl-arge because it makes me laugh
Blue hi
Blah-hadge, though I’ll also tend to mention blo-hi when I’m teaching someone about our ally.
I pronounce it as basically blow high
