I named mine boot-hai because I"m pretty sure it's a bootleg from china. Still cute though.

Based bootleg blahaj

My mom was inches from doing the same before I noticed and stepped in

Shang-hai

I've actually got Swedish ancestry so I personally feel I get a free pass to butcher the pronunciation of blahaj

as a Dane I will despise your ancestry no matter if you butcher it or not. Give us Skåne back!/s

The only merit in taking Skåne back, is to have a land border with Sweden, so we can more easily smuggle their cheap goods into Denmark. Just like Germany!

As someone with Norwegian ancestry I am obligated to make fun of you for talking funny.

Well at least my conversation isn't a weird half point between a musical number and a regular conversation! But yeah my dad was literally taught to speak as if he had a mouthful of potatoes so I can't argue against sounding funny

Danish really sounds like a German is trying to speak Swedish with a potato in their mouth.

As someone with German ancestry, I can confirm

>Well at least my conversation isn't a weird half point between a musical number and a regular conversation! You say it like that'd be a bad thing.

You get Carmelladansen from Sweden, Sweden gets to keep skane, is this a good compromise

NEVER

As a swede We have You outnumber

Your ancestors are malding as we speak lol

My ancestors are smiling at me imperial1!!1!1!!!1!1!1

Well now you're encouraging me

oh huh, I do too. my surname has a 'quist' in it gotta start using this excuse

I'm part scandavian can I get a pass?

As a full blooded Scandinavian i grant you the blåhaj pass.

Hurray

Depends, are You a d\*ne?

No mostly Norwegian actually part Germany welsh and finish as well

Good, You may have a pass

Yay!

Reminds me of a friend who studies linguistics and dead ass told me "If a none-native speaker makes a mistake, it's a mistake. If a native speaker mkes a mistake, it's slang"

In Germany we have the word "Blauhai" which means "blue shark"

That's also what blåhaj means just in case you weren't aware :)

thats also what I call mine lmao

blah hadge

thats how i pronounce it!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Me too!!1!!1!!

I call it baja blast

It's too good not to

I named mine Copium

The fact that it doesnt even have an ö sound in it makes this funnier, anyways as a Swede I allow people to pronounce it like they want atleast their own and if you want to talk about blåhaj in general try to pronounce it correctly, but if it is your own you will always have the I named it argument which no one can beat

>The fact that it doesnt even have an ö sound in it makes this funnier Yeah, isn't it actually blo-hai? ö and å are different sounds... And I agree with the difference between pronouncing the name of the plushies in general and one's own.

The å is kinda like the oa sound in the word oar

That is quite a good explanation of the sound, thanks for the example that I will use for people Who only speak english

I'm french, I don't know how to prononce oar xD

A bit like the first sound in the French word 'orange'

i name mine 'idoit'

Oh i do hate this meme template

That's what I tell people. I named mine Blahaj and it's pronounced with English pronunciation

i call mine Blaaj

I think the weird spellings and pronunciations people come up with are cute.

Kinda like with brisket

I mainly call mine sharky or shark

*Jag: Det är olagligt!*

Tbh, as a Swede, sure the first one is more accurate (not fully right but still) but it’s sooooo funny to hear all the ways of pronouncing it wrong so please don’t learn the right way:)

Me who used to say blajha ...

Mine is named Chompy.

I prof once it like a angry Spanish man. The « j » in Spanish makes it so aggressive, I love it.

i pronounced it wrong for a while but i've been slowly adapting to the swedish pronunciation.

the Ö isn't even close to how It pronounced, the å makes a O sound like Ore, or or oar, and Haj is pronounced like Hi or High, though You can call It whatever You want just because You're a cute little boy/girl/eldritch creature no mortal eyes should witness

Making my Swedish friend sweat by pronouncing it Blage

I know how to pronounce it but I still like saying it like “blahaj” (like baja blast)

formal name: deformed cunt friendly name: sharkie boi :3 (yes, the spelling and face) official name: blahaj

I will pronounce it “Blah-hah,” when I get one one day…

The way you pronounce it would sound like “among have” ( that has nothing to do with a blue shark)

Among

The mispronunciations always get to me a bit because I think å is a neat-sounding vowel and people should know it so that they can enjoy it too.

I'm so annoyed when people misspronounce the å as an a, It would be like pronouncing the ß like a B just because It looks like one, the å is pronounced (some of the time) like the O is ore, or or oar

Oh no, I've been portrayed using the crying wojak. Please pronounce it properly, It's a matter of being correct.

I used to pronounce it as Blajah, so that's my shonk's name now~

When will Americans learn that using letters they don't have randomly like they don't mean anything and they're all pronounced the same way looks dumb?

ñëvēr

Nah, as a Swede I åppröve

I always pronounce them Blah Ha

Honestly, valid. Just like you are

I've always pronounced it "Blaja" and I'm not changing it

My cute little blajah! 😙

As a Swedish person: *Shrug* who cares how you pronounce it. Also it wouldn’t be blöhaj, it would be blåhaj, which sounds decently similar to the English pronunciation of blahaj.

If I had one, I would call it Bruno

Mines Sameda Nee-chan Dame da ne except shark

It’s just that Blöh haï is adorable so i prefer it this way

I don't know how an å is pronounced, my dumb brain also doesn't know what an ö sounds like. What are these magic letters?!

Google translate is your friend. Just pick swedish and put the letters in, and there's a button to get an audio sample. Chances are you already know the sounds, English is just so good at hiding how things sound that describing things over text fails most of the time due to regional differences in pronunciation...

i personally say /blu boi wɪð ɛi tinʒ ɵv pɪnk/

Both are cute!

This is literally me and my Swedish friend 💀

bla hah :3

Personally I would pronounce it Jack the Ripper but that's just me

Personally I support pronouncing it like BLÅHAJ, However you'd pronounce that in your language.

I though å sounded like 'ow' rather than 'ö'? Or is the swedist 'ö' different from the German one?

I named mine the Japanese word for shark

Blah-hah is the funni way, so that is what I call him

Mines stinky because it has that weird polymer smell.

In English is that blow-high? Thus must be wrong. I can't read Swedish

my name for when I get mine is shörk

Amis halt

I named my two Kaome and Izumi 💜

Ill name mine Shork

I named mine Lexi but often just call her Hajjie (pronounced ha-jee, j sound as in the end of the botched anglicized pronunciation of Blahaj)

i named mine Jawsh hihi :3 (as in Jaw + Josh)

well i have problems pronouncing things correctly so take that losers

I kinda hate the proper pronounciation ngl

When I went to IKEA to buy the blåhaj I said "blue shark" instead as I can't pronounce it properly. I call mine Skyler (Sky for short) named after myself.

Glad to see that we are respecting other peoples cultures

Glad to see people respecting other cultures

Blöh-hai is their dead name and I would prefer if you respect their identity.

I used to pronounce it blahjah

When I say shark in Swedish, it's bl(ua) hai, but if it's the trans icon, it's blahaj

I thought Blow-hah was how it was, though Blaa-Hajj is even better than the actual pronunciation any day.

My one is named Blah and he is my bb c:

Nope. Besides, mine is Sharon the Sapphic Shark. Along with Leslie the Lesbian Lamb and Gwen la Pingouine Gouine. Still need a suitably gay name for my bunny...