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It's easy \ˈfor.d͡ʒe.jo\ the Esperanto word for forge
by joencott 4y ago
It's easy \ˈfor.d͡ʒe.jo\ the Esperanto word for forge
- 5e92cb50239222b 4y ago… unless your first language is very different from Esperanto. It really does sound weird. I already imagine trying to sell this at my $DAYJOB (I would likely have to "fork" it myself just to replace a few strings in the codebase that mention the original name).
- joencott 4y agoWhat does it sound like in your language?
- 5e92cb50239222b 4y agoNothing bad or unpleasant, It just sounds very foreign and hard to pronounce. When I hear it (in my head), the first thing that comes to mind is some sort of a hairy middle-aged male character in a Spanish soap opera. Doesn't really matter for me personally, but very much does matter in a work context. People have already had trouble with calling Gitea by its proper name and just calling it 'git'.
- thiht 4y ago> unless your first language is very different from Esperanto. Even with a language close to Esperanto (French) it’s hard to pronounce, and not very catchy. Honestly using an Esperanto word is a bit uninspired and mediocre.
- riffraff 4y agoThe problem is g and j have a variety of pronunciations across languages, some of them overlapping! And English being the mess that it is, it has multiple pronunciations itself. So It is a bit of a messy name, tho I appreciate I can read it with the Italian interpretation of those.
- archsurface 4y agoThis doesn't roll off the tongue at all. I'm afraid it's a very poor name.
- manfre 4y ago> It's easy The many comments disagree. I hope you are content with people referring to it as "forge" or "Forge Joe".
- DandyDev 4y agoFor us plebs that don't fluently read phonetics, can you spell it with equivalent sounds from English?
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