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title: "Hau"
category: [english]
tags: [FAQ, frequently, asked, question, hau, dogs, finnish]
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*A frequently asked question: "what does hau mean?" To avoid repeating
myself, I will explain it here.*
"Hau" is what dogs "say" in Finnish (they also "say" some other things such
as "vuh").
At first I just greeted [Tessu] and family members by saying "hau" and then
it widened to IRC & elsewhere.
[Tessu]:https://mikaela.info/r/tessu
It cannot be any worse greeting than "hai" (below) which some people use.
![hai](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/56/White_shark.jpg)
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<div class="centered"><em>Valkohai (Carcharodon carcharias) by Terry
Goss (CC BY 2.5) via <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:White_shark.jpg">WikiMedia</a>.</em></div>
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[WikiMedia]:https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:White_shark.jpg
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* * * * *
*Update: add some point I started saying "mau" instead which is what
the cats say in Finnish, but why not as it only changes one letter.*
*This is probably caused by the fact that I moved away from Tessu and
[Karou from the Daughter of Smoke & Bone](/r/karou) was very easy to
identify with in the first book.*