I just want know how to pronounce It correctly...

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I just want know how to pronounce It correctly...

I like the software, so I’ll overlook it’s shady deeds.

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It’s in their FAQ 🙂

https://forgejo.org/faq/#where-does-the-name-come-from

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Oh wow, they have an audio sample and everything! Looks like it’s “for jeo” (pronounced like “Mateo")

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I feel like if you need an audio sample to get people to pronounce your name correctly, you should just name it something else….

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I enjoy how there’s the correct answer, and then there’s the other answers in this thread. 🙃

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Thanks for this. I should have known it’d be somewhere like that.

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It’s pronounced like the Esperanto word it’s based on, forĝejo similar to English forge.

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Never knew about Esperanto, but that was fun to learn about.

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It can still be pretty Euro-centric but it’s awesome to be able to communicate with people from any number of countries at the same time.

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Next up: lojban

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Lojban is so much easier to speak than Esperanto! We actually recently talked in #lojban on Libera about how to pronounce the word in question and our answer is something like {fordzeiio} if one likes the slinkuui semantics or {fordzei'o} otherwise.

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Forge Joe is how I pronounce it.

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“For Joe”

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I keep reading it as “four-gee-joe”, but I’m pretty sure that is not the right pronounciation.

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As a speaker of Esperanto, I believe they used the Esperanto for the noun “forge” which is spelled ‘forĝejo’ with a facy-pants g-circumflex.

In Esperanto, the G with a hat is pronounced like the soft G in forge. The J is pronounced like the letter Y, like in the English word fjord.

So, I don’t know if the makers of the tool intended the Esperanto pronunciation to be used. But if it is, the pronunciation would be like forge-AY-o.

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Its named after the Esperanto word, but the intended pronunciation is for-JAY-oh.

https://forgejo.dev/forgejo.dev/forgejo

Official pronunciation audio: https://forgejo.org/static/forgejo.mp4

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Just like hotkinkyjo

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Damn, didn’t know he was all kinky like that

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I’ll do you one better; why is forgejo?

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Nice keyboard

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Thanks. It’s the only swipe enabled keyboard I’ve found for my degoogled phone. They have their own F-Droid repo as well

https://keyboard.futo.tech/

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