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Re:Forgejo makes a full break from Gitea by triyambakam on Tuesday February 27, 2024 @01:30PM (#39527645)
If you need a recording of the pronunciation I think you've failed basic branding and marketing.

Also the pronunciation recording does not match how I would expect it to be spelled. Fordgeo is what I'm hearing

Re:Forgejo makes a full break from Gitea by mariusor on Tuesday February 27, 2024 @04:12PM (#39530043)
It's a niche product targeting nerds. Ideally nerds that have heard of Esperanto, and maybe even dabbled with it.
Re:Forgejo makes a full break from Gitea by shp0ngle on Tuesday February 27, 2024 @01:43PM (#39527835)
Who cares about marketing.

Nobody knows how to pronounce gitea either. Half of people pronounce it "gi-te-ah".

Re:Forgejo makes a full break from Gitea by justin_oaks on Tuesday February 27, 2024 @02:27PM (#39528511)
And let's not get started about the spelling vs pronunciation of LaTeX, NGINX, and Kubernetes.
Re:Forgejo makes a full break from Gitea by dymk on Tuesday February 27, 2024 @09:09PM (#39533053)
Clarify? All of those have straightforward pronunciations and spellings, with maybe nginx's spelling the exception, but it's also very popular.
Re:Forgejo makes a full break from Gitea by MzHN on Thursday February 29, 2024 @02:21AM (#39547101)
Wikipedia lists two pronunciations for LaTeX: "/ˈlɑːtɛk/ LAH-tek or /ˈleɪtɛk/ LAY-tek".

On top of those, I've also heard the k at the end be replaced with h, which would also be correct, as per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chi_(letter)

The common pronunciation of latex /ˈleɪˌtɛks/ would be incorrect.

For Kubernetes, Wikipedia lists eight different pronunciations: /ˌk(j)uːbərˈnɛtɪs, -ˈneɪtɪs, -ˈneɪtiːz, -ˈnɛtiːz/, with the j after k being optional.

NGINX feels like the most straightforward out of these, even though it is rarely pronounced correctly.

As for myself, I like to call it NG Inks, as in next-gen tattoos, at least whenever I hear it pronounced wrong :)

Re:Forgejo makes a full break from Gitea by ehPReth on Tuesday February 27, 2024 @03:00PM (#39528968)
Oh, just like Linux? https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/SillySounds...

I have a feeling that's not the best metric, but go off.

Re:Forgejo makes a full break from Gitea by this_user on Tuesday February 27, 2024 @01:39PM (#39527770)
> If you need a recording of the pronunciation I think you've failed basic branding and marketing.

Their landing page has this to say:

> Forgejo is a self-hosted lightweight software forge.

This tells me basically nothing, at least nothing useful in terms of what they are offering.

Re:Forgejo makes a full break from Gitea by worik on Tuesday February 27, 2024 @01:44PM (#39527857)
>> Forgejo is a self-hosted lightweight software forge.

>This tells me basically nothing, at least nothing useful in terms of what they are offering.

What else could they add to be clearer?

* Software forge

* Self hosted

* Lightweight

I find these terms to be clear.

Re:Forgejo makes a full break from Gitea by plorkyeran on Tuesday February 27, 2024 @02:08PM (#39528220)
People who are not already using one of the non-Github forges have no clue what a "software forge" is. It's a very niche bit of jargon, and these days most developers are not even familiar with sourceforge.
Re:Forgejo makes a full break from Gitea by Minor49er on Tuesday February 27, 2024 @01:57PM (#39528041)
What is a lightweight software forge?
Re:Forgejo makes a full break from Gitea by marssaxman on Tuesday February 27, 2024 @01:48PM (#39527912)
What is a "software forge"?
Re:Forgejo makes a full break from Gitea by worik on Wednesday February 28, 2024 @07:59PM (#39545434)
I really had no idea that it was not a very clear term.

I was wrong.

Golly, I learnt something!

Re:Forgejo makes a full break from Gitea by Pxtl on Tuesday February 27, 2024 @01:36PM (#39527728)
Yeah, using an Esperanto word, and in particular one where the letters have very different pronounciation from English (the J is pronounced like Y and the E is not silent) seems like a bad move given that realistically the software world is in English.
Re:Forgejo makes a full break from Gitea by justsomehnguy on Tuesday February 27, 2024 @02:11PM (#39528273)
> different pronounciation from English

Just like .gif, yeah.