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