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I’m too scandinavian to get this
Even as someone who’s Dutch this seems quite obvious. I guess it’s not obvious to English speaking people because shark is nothing like haj.
Okay, that’s odd. Both English and Scandinavian used to be closer on this, using the same original word “sea dog” originated in old Norse or so.
However both languages changed it to something else since that.
Both languages borrowed words from Dutch, but not the same Dutch word.
The English took “Schurk” for scoundrel and applied it to the fish, while Scandinavia took “Haai” describing the fin.
Curiously, Scandinavian also took Schurk and made it into “skurk”, but also uses “haj” as a scoundrel just the same as English in the word “loanshark” = “lånehaj” etc.
So the words have the same origin, but it was split in Dutch while being passed back and forth between languages.
As a true Scandinavian, do you also speak Hindi?
Wait till you find out how it’s pronounced. It’s /ˈbloːhaj/. Here’s an audio recording (still not 100% correct because you’d need to pronounce “blow” with a Glasgow accent, but this video is way funnier than the serious ones). I still call mine /blɑ.'hɑːd͡ʒ/, or just /hɑːd͡ʒ/ :3
But consider: Swedish is a fictional language made up by a furniture store to sell sawdust and horse meat rolled into funny little balls
Close. Swedish is a failed attempt at Danish, as is Norwegian.
don’t Norwegians English now?
This is ludicrous, horse meat costs more than beef.
As a Swede I can tell you it’s pronounced “blåhaj”; no biggie ;)
(Also the latter video is correct)
While we’re at it: the correct pronunciation is obviously “gif”. You’re very welcome!
Finally, my degree in old English dialects is useful!
It’s extraordinarily lucky for you then that “gif” entered the English language on or around the PM period during ca. June 15, 1987.
Etymology: From Proto-Germanic jabai (when, if) with anomalous apocope. The expected form is attested once as ġyfe in the early 7th-century Law of Æthelberht, if not simply a scribal error.
Conjunction: ġif
Descendants: Middle English: if, yif, yef
Therefore, “gif” is pronounced with a Y
Edit: Yes, this was a very long way to go for a furry joke
Like being high on the blow, or a snow, or a coke. I get it it (:
But yeah, blah-hadge adds some alien tones to that. Not really nordic, but middle-eastern ones with that last vowel, like in hijab, jihad, tajik and other words.
ed: How could I forget Taj Mahal, lol. In my pronounciation it was 100% rhyming with Taj.
Blåhaj is the very concept of the blue shark. This is unfathomable to the human mind.
Blåhaj 💚
Our beloved 💙
Me with my A2 level of swedish 🤓
Blorhai says hi 👋
Smitty Werbenjägermanjensen says hi back! 👋
jajamensan
Blåhaj!
What does it mean in Hindi?
