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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NeoLuddite@lemmy.world · 58 pts · 20d (9 replies)
sbeak@sopuli.xyz · 29 pts · 20d (6 replies)

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

sundray@lemmus.org · 61 pts · 20d

mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 20d (3 replies)

Aka, pretend it's Spanish, since it's a word from pretend Spanish (specifically Esperanto, not Portuguese)

zarkanian@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 19d

J has an H sound in Spanish, not a Y sound.

SpatchyIsOnline@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 19d (1 reply)

Wasn't Esperanto made by a Polish dude?

mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 19d

No idea. Also, my comment is mostly a joke

blarghly@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 19d

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

trem@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 20d

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

pnwpixel@programming.dev · 3 pts · 20d

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

undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch · 23 pts · 20d (4 replies)

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

pnwpixel@programming.dev · 3 pts · 20d (3 replies)

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

undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch · 3 pts · 20d

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.

communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz · 1 pts · 19d (1 reply)

Next up: lojban

Corbin@programming.dev · 1 pts · 19d

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.

hperrin@lemmy.ca · 18 pts · 20d (2 replies)

Forge Joe is how I pronounce it.

frischkaesbagett@feddit.org · 5 pts · 20d (1 reply)
hperrin@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 20d

How many jay-o’s?

dadarobot@lemmy.ml · 17 pts · 20d

4JO

surewhynotlem@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 20d (6 replies)

For-jay-ho

diemartin@sh.itjust.works · 18 pts · 20d (3 replies)

For-gay-ho (Spanish)

surewhynotlem@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 20d (2 replies)

AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works · 14 pts · 20d

You have been banned from Tesseract

diemartin@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 19d

Sure, why not?

zarkanian@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 19d

Close. For-jay-oh

Quibblekrust@thelemmy.club · 2 pts · 20d

girlnamedzero@piefed.zeromedia.vip · 8 pts · 20d

I say forge yo

WolfLink@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 20d (2 replies)

“For Joe”

Lauchmelder@feddit.org · 3 pts · 20d

who's joe?

yetAnotherUser@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 20d
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xia@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 20d (3 replies)

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

Wiz@midwest.social · 7 pts · 20d (2 replies)

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.

sandwichsaregood@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 20d

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

onlinepersona@programming.dev · 2 pts · 20d

Ay yo!

onlinepersona@programming.dev · 4 pts · 20d (1 reply)

Just like hotkinkyjo

pnwpixel@programming.dev · 2 pts · 20d

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

Alvaro@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 19d

For jay oh

mangaskahn@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 19d

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

Zarobi@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 20d (1 reply)

Nice keyboard

pnwpixel@programming.dev · 2 pts · 20d

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/