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Hard to pronounce name sounds already like a bad start.

It's easy \ˈfor.d͡ʒe.jo\ the Esperanto word for forge

… 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).

> 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.

What does it sound like in your language?

Nothing 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'.

The 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.

> It's easy

The many comments disagree. I hope you are content with people referring to it as "forge" or "Forge Joe".

For us plebs that don't fluently read phonetics, can you spell it with equivalent sounds from English?

four•JAY•yo

This doesn't roll off the tongue at all. I'm afraid it's a very poor name.

It’s an idealistic choice and not a pragmatic one. In Portuguese it’s passable, but still off (I understand most Southern European languages and a smattering of German, and it feels like a poor choice in any of them).

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