• @rumschlumpel@feddit.org
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    503 months ago

    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.

    • @SpiderShoeCult@sopuli.xyz
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      323 months ago

      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.

        • esa
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          33 months 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.

        • @Successful_Try543@feddit.org
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          3 months 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).

    • @P4ulin_Kbana@lemmy.eco.br
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      23 months ago

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

      blåhaj.

      It’s unexpected but pretty convenient!

    • @Empricorn@feddit.nl
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      53 months ago

      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.

    • JackbyDev
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      33 months ago

      Just hold down A!

      Holds down A on desktop keyboard aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

      • @rumschlumpel@feddit.org
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        13 months ago

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