Great, hopefully this high-profile move makes them change their name into something that can't be potentially pronounced 8 different ways. Forge-joe? Or more like Jorge-ho?
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It comes from the Esperanto forĝejo meaning forge (noun, literally a site, ejo, where forging takes place). So soft g, and j as English y. /forˈd͡ʒe.jo/
Not many names come from Esperanto so that's interesting. :)
For anyone wondering, for a native English speaker, it's pronounced like "for-jay-yo".
I think it's interesting but also still a terrible name. But I fear the time to change it is long gone.
Why terrible? Because is not in English?
Because like the op said- it's not clear how it's to be pronounced.
I've learned some Esperanto. Doesn't mean it's a great base for naming a project.
Because like the op said- it's not clear how it's to be pronounced.
Because you are assuming everything should be pronounced as in English. Names can be in any language. It's on you if you assume English phonetics.
Dude, I speak like four languages. It's a dumb name in my opinion.
And I speak three and am learning a fourth. It's just a bad name.
Care to explain why? If it's objectively bad, you should have objective evidence for it. Do you?
No
So you're spewing nonsense. Good to know.
That opinion probably has a reason, does it? What is it?
I've been pronouncing it For-ge-ho
for as in the word "for",
ge as in gecko
and ho as in ho-ho-ho!
I've always been a fan of for-ged-joe (like forget Joe, but with a d instead of a t)
It's officially "for-jay-yo".
Maybe it's more like for-gay-joe? Or for-gay-o? For-gee-o? For-gy-o? Who knows?
For-gy-o
Now there's a winner. F-Orgy-O. Like a Federated Orgy.
I've always just read and called it forgero which always made sense to me. I never realised the letters were not those...
Forgejo-jo-jo
Depends on your language.
Please ActivityPub federation in Forgejo!!
It's being worked.
I knowwww
If it’s going to be a name from a made up language, it should be in Klingon.
All languages are made up.
For Esperanto probably nobody will want royalties :)