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[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

It comes from the Esperanto forĝejo meaning forge (noun, literally a site, ejo, where forging takes place). So soft g, and j as English y. /forˈd͡ʒe.jo/

https://forgejo.org/faq/

Not many names come from Esperanto so that's interesting. :)

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

For anyone wondering, for a native English speaker, it's pronounced like "for-jay-yo".

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I think it's interesting but also still a terrible name. But I fear the time to change it is long gone.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Why terrible? Because is not in English?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Because like the op said- it's not clear how it's to be pronounced.

I've learned some Esperanto. Doesn't mean it's a great base for naming a project.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Because like the op said- it's not clear how it's to be pronounced.

Because you are assuming everything should be pronounced as in English. Names can be in any language. It's on you if you assume English phonetics.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Dude, I speak like four languages. It's a dumb name in my opinion.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

And I speak three and am learning a fourth. It's just a bad name.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Care to explain why? If it's objectively bad, you should have objective evidence for it. Do you?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 weeks ago

So you're spewing nonsense. Good to know.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 weeks ago

That opinion probably has a reason, does it? What is it?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

A strange choice. You've got most people who will be confused by the odd spelling, and then you've got esperantists like me who get confused by the missing accent mark. Until now, just seeing it in passing I assumed it was a password manager or something because of 'forgesi'.

I am glad to see more Esperanto in the wild, though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah, I don't disagree there, as somebody primed on Esperanto, familiar with the -ejo ending, it looks like an Esperanto word to me so my original instinct was to pronounce it in the Esperanto way but with the 'hard-g'. I guess to be fair they would have more problems if they asked everyone to write 'ĝ'.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

I guess to be fair they would have more problems if they asked everyone to write ‘ĝ’.

They could have used the old "gh" convention.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah, even with my relatively limited Esperanto familiarity (mi estas ankoraŭ komencanto, sed mi povas legi kaj skribi iomete), I was originally confused by it as well when I started using it a few months ago. Then when I saw the explanation on the faq, I just found myself wondering why the heck they used g instead of ĝ.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago