"Hey, how was Mecca?" "Meh the hajj was kinda blah this year. It was a blah hajj."
this post was submitted on 13 Sep 2024
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Blå = blue
Haj = shark
It would be more like bloh high- elongate the O sound and drop the w 
I had mandatory Swedish lessons in school and I have to get use out of them somehow
Rail = rail
Imma be real with u chief, I will still be saying blah-hajj
Bit idea: cis guy who doesn't speak Swedish telling off trans girl for pronouncing blahaj wrong.
Legit saw someone doing this in 196 
swedish tips:
ä is pronounced "ehhhh"
ö is pronounced "uhhhh"
å is pronounced "oh!"
ö is pronounced "uhhhh"
Are you sure? I've always struggled with how to explain the ö sound to English speakers
I'd say it's kind of sort of like the ir in "whirlwind" if you dropped the r sound but even that's not too close
For extra hard mode: try to teach English speakers the Finnish "u" and "y"
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This is a gif situation and I will be responding accordingly
Closer to a "British bakeoff people calling it a tack-o" situation.
Ah crap, blah-hajj sounds so much funnier though
its fine sweden doesnt deserve respect
Honestly, after the consumer-queer instance co-opted it, I really can't be fucked to care how one is supposed to pronounce it
only of my hajjs is blue and she's called Sini thank you very much. I will be calling my beautiful shark babies with their given names 
You say Blåhaj wrong (the anglo way) to a Polish person and this what they hear:
"Blacharz"
I wonder how confused Swedes were when they saw the name "Mötley Crüe"
Sadly they get overlooked because Motörhead is significantly more hysterical to say out loud with the ö.
Actually by pure coincidence, Mötley, is significantly more natural to say in Swedish than Motley, so I think we all just assume it's a fantasy name for some kind of dragon, crue already is phonetic so that sorts itself out.
Swedish doesn't use ü.
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Swedish isn't a real language
Sweden is made up so I'm gonna keep saying it the fun way
I figured the j is y
(Eg. From Yohannes to John)
So I say Bla-hai
But I never knew it was pronounced more like 'blow-high' due to a with o pronounced like an 'o'
Blah-hajj would be correct if it was blahaj (I think that could be translated as blah shark), but it's blåhaj (blue shark).
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Blah-hajj sounds like it could be more accurate though. As long as you don't pronounce it like blahhash or something. J as in Jerma.
Blow and high are useful examples cause they sneak in the rhythm and timing better than trying to like write out that you have to take it a little slower with the words.
With blah and hajj people really rush both words as well as the rhythm between them and that kind of makes it sound worse than if you get the delivery right but just have weird pronounciation of the words themselves.
Ah right shark is "Hai" in german
It's a magma/lava type thing. Once the trans person walks out of the ikea store with it, it's pronounced blah-hajj