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I just want know how to pronounce It correctly... (programming.dev)

submitted 3 months ago by pnwpixel@programming.dev to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] NeoLuddite@lemmy.world 53 points 3 months ago (5 children)

It's in their FAQ 🙂

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

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[–] sbeak@sopuli.xyz 28 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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

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[–] sundray@lemmus.org 57 points 3 months ago

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[–] blarghly@lemmy.world 1 point 3 months ago

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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[–] trem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 3 months ago

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

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[–] pnwpixel@programming.dev [S] 2 points 3 months ago

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

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[–] undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch 22 points 3 months ago* (4 children)

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

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[–] pnwpixel@programming.dev [S] 3 points 3 months ago (3 children)

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

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[–] undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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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[–] communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

Next up: lojban

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[–] Corbin@programming.dev 1 point 3 months ago

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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[–] dadarobot@lemmy.ml 15 points 3 months ago

4JO

[–] girlnamedzero@piefed.zeromedia.vip 9 points 3 months ago

I say forge yo

[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 18 points 3 months ago

Forge Joe is how I pronounce it.

[–] WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 months ago

“For Joe”

[–] xia@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 months ago (3 children)

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

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[–] Wiz@midwest.social 7 points 3 months ago* (2 children)

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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[–] sandwichsaregood@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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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[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 2 points 3 months ago

Ay yo!

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[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago (6 children)

For-jay-ho

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[–] diemartin@sh.itjust.works 18 points 3 months ago (3 children)

For-gay-ho (Spanish)

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[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 23 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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[–] AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works 15 points 3 months ago

You have been banned from Tesseract

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[–] diemartin@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago

Sure, why not?

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[–] Quibblekrust@thelemmy.club 2 points 3 months ago

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[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago

Close. For-jay-oh

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[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 4 points 3 months ago (1 child)

Just like hotkinkyjo

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[–] pnwpixel@programming.dev [S] 2 points 3 months ago

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

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[–] Alvaro@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 3 months ago

For jay oh

[–] mangaskahn@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

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