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[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 week ago (5 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (4 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Also it sounds more like the vowel group in the word 'awl' than an actual 'o'. Bit tricky to describe, really

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Dieser Hai gehört nun der Bundesrepublik Deutschland.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Blouhaai if you're from South Africa.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Blauwe Haai if you’re Dutch

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

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.)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

domain names can be basically whatever the fuck you want and it kills me how no one in sweden seems to understand this, like come on we're supposed to be good at computers up here, we can do better than just redirecting göteborg.se to goteborg.se..

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

They do now! Blåhaj.world (might not work in old browsers)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

AfaIk, domain names may include special characters since a while.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

ツ.gay

e: it’s real i promise

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Generally it's called punycode and is encoded as xn--SOMETHING. Browsers mostly mitigate those scammer paradise tricks by rendering the punycode domain as intended only if it contains characters from a single script. Like if it contains an å, then only other characters from languages that also have å are allowed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Putting 'aa' instead of 'å' should also be fine.

[–] JackbyDev 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Just hold down A!

Holds down A on desktop keyboard aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

TBF on desktop I could install a program (or possibly already have) that does the job, I just never got around to it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I use Unexpected Keyboard for Android and I can easily add the ˚ modificator to my keyboard.

blåhaj.

It's unexpected but pretty convenient!