Justas🇱🇹@sh.itjust.works to Programming@programming.dev · 1 month agoForget "gif" vs "jif" debate. How does one pronounce "Forgejo"?message-squaremessage-square52fedilinkarrow-up1121arrow-down112
arrow-up1109arrow-down1message-squareForget "gif" vs "jif" debate. How does one pronounce "Forgejo"?Justas🇱🇹@sh.itjust.works to Programming@programming.dev · 1 month agomessage-square52fedilink
minus-squaree0qdk@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up75·1 month agoAccording to their FAQ, they say it’s supposed to be pronounced /forˈd͡ʒe.jo/ and provide an audio clip: https://forgejo.org/static/forgejo.mp4 To me that sounds like “for-jay-oh”.
minus-squareodium@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up24·1 month agodamn, soft g + not a silent e + German j. I would’ve pronounced it forge + Joe before this. would have only gotten a third of those things right.
minus-squarefmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 month agoI thought it was a play on “forge”, I was wrong.
minus-squaree0qdk@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 month agoIt’s the Esperanto word for “forge”, according to the FAQ.
According to their FAQ, they say it’s supposed to be pronounced /forˈd͡ʒe.jo/ and provide an audio clip: https://forgejo.org/static/forgejo.mp4
To me that sounds like “for-jay-oh”.
damn, soft g + not a silent e + German j.
I would’ve pronounced it forge + Joe before this. would have only gotten a third of those things right.
For-jail-o?
I thought it was a play on “forge”, I was wrong.
It’s the Esperanto word for “forge”, according to the FAQ.