• @LordAmplifier@pawb.social
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    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

    • DumbAceDragon
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      6 months ago

      But consider: Swedish is a fictional language made up by a furniture store to sell sawdust and horse meat rolled into funny little balls

          • @Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
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            All Scandinavians English. In fact, the vast majority of us are fluent.

            But in case you meant that Norwegians ONLY speak English, that’s not the case. They actually speak TWO kinds of Norwegian. Bokmål, which is a pretty good attempt at Danish and Nynorsk, which is a pretty good imitation of insanity.

            • @pewgar_seemsimandroid
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              if you consider Scandinavia as refering to the Nordics then Estonian has quite a bit of English speakers

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                I consider Scandinavia as Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, since that’s what Scandinavia is. I’m not speaking of only Scandinavia to exclude the other Nordic countries, though, just because I know a lot less about the other Nordic countries vis a vis their language abilities 🤷

                Except for the fun fact that Estonia is the only country outside of the Kingdom of Denmark that teaches Danish as a mandatory subject in school 😁

          • @lars@lemmy.sdf.org
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            It’s extraordinarily lucky for you then that “gif” entered the English language on or around the PM period during ca. June 15, 1987.

            • @EldritchFeminity
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              gif

              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

    • Андрей Быдло
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      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.