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sbeakreply
sopuli.xyz

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

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mnemonicmonkeysreply
sh.itjust.works

Aka, pretend it's Spanish, since it's a word from pretend Spanish (specifically Esperanto, not Portuguese)

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blarghlyreply
lemmy.world

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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tremreply
lemmy.blahaj.zone

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

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Cousin Mosereply
lemmy.hogru.ch

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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Corbinreply
programming.dev

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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xia
lemmy.ca

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

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Wizreply
midwest.social

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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