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How do you pronounce this? Forge Joe? Forego? Forgeaux?

/for'd͡ʒe.jo/

It's Esperanto. It's supposed to be written "forĝejo" (forĝi=to forge, -ej-=place, -o=noun). The letter ĝ (for the dʒ sound, like Dj in Django, or J in John) is supposed to be written as gx without diacritics. But I assume "forgxejo" would have confused non-Esperantists even more.

Not exactly. The official way of substituting the circumflex is with ‘h’, not ‘x’, so it would be written as ‘forghejo’, which might actually guide English speakers to the correct pronunciation.

(There are various systems to type without diacritics in Esperanto. Two of the most widely popular ones are to use the letters ‘h’ and ‘x’, and using either of those would be correct. But if one is to be regarded as the ‘default’ choice, it has to be the one with ‘h’, since that’s been codified in the language’s foundation since its early days.)

Another option would be "forghejo", that's how Zamenhof suggested replacing ĝ

"Forgejo" is not ideal in Esperanto, because both "for" 'away' and "gejo" 'gay man' are totally valid Esperanto words, and "forgejo" is a valid combination (even though it's hard to understand what "away-gay" should mean); compare "foriri" 'go away' or "forigi" 'do away with, remove' xD

So ... forjejo ?

Forjeyo, or rather For-Jay-(Y)o, I believe.

To my ear (native English speaker) it sounds like: for j o

The article provides an mp4 that answers this question:

https://forgejo.org/static/forgejo.mp4

No way anyone will pronounce it that way.

Now that I know how it's supposed to be pronounced, that's how I'll pronounce it.

So I just invalidated your argument, lol.

You did not. It's an expression and doesn't actually mean "not a single person on the planet". A few anomalies do not make it untrue. Also, you saying you will is not the same as doing it.

Then again, you'd have to assume that people trying to follow official pronunciation are anomalies.

I was being playful, calm yourself.

It's how I instinctively pronounced it, because I recognized it as being Esperanto-adjacent, so...

It is not a well-picked name.

Something about a 'g' and a 'j' nearly side by side is really messing with my brain.

Fra-gi-lay

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