I like the software, so I'll overlook it's shady deeds.
It's in their FAQ π
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Oh wow, they have an audio sample and everything! Looks like it's "for jeo" (pronounced like "Mateo")
I feel like if you need an audio sample to get people to pronounce your name correctly, you should just name it something else....
Aka, pretend it's Spanish, since it's a word from pretend Spanish (specifically Esperanto, not Portuguese)
Wasn't Esperanto made by a Polish dude?
J has an H sound in Spanish, not a Y sound.
Thanks for this. I should have known it'd be somewhere like that.
I enjoy how there's the correct answer, and then there's the other answers in this thread. π
Never knew about Esperanto, but that was fun to learn about.
Next up: lojban
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.
It can still be pretty Euro-centric but itβs awesome to be able to communicate with people from any number of countries at the same time.
4JO
For jay oh
I say forge yo
I'll do you one better; why is forgejo?
βFor Joeβ
who's joe?
For-jay-ho
For-gay-ho (Spanish)
You have been banned from Tesseract
Sure, why not?
Close. For-jay-oh
I keep reading it as "four-gee-joe", but I'm pretty sure that is not the right pronounciation.
As a speaker of Esperanto, I believe they used the Esperanto for the noun "forge" which is spelled 'forΔejo' 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.
Its named after the Esperanto word on, but the intended pronunciation is for-JAY-oh.
https://forgejo.dev/forgejo.dev/forgejo
Official pronunciation audio: https://forgejo.org/static/forgejo.mp4
Ay yo!
Just like hotkinkyjo
Damn, didn't know he was all kinky like that
Nice keyboard
Thanks. It's the only swipe enabled keyboard I've found for my degoogled phone. They have their own F-Droid repo as well