• zagaberoo@beehaw.org
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    8 days ago

    A strange choice. You’ve got most people who will be confused by the odd spelling, and then you’ve got esperantists like me who get confused by the missing accent mark. Until now, just seeing it in passing I assumed it was a password manager or something because of ‘forgesi’.

    I am glad to see more Esperanto in the wild, though.

    • anothermember@lemmy.zip
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      7 days ago

      Yeah, I don’t disagree there, as somebody primed on Esperanto, familiar with the -ejo ending, it looks like an Esperanto word to me so my original instinct was to pronounce it in the Esperanto way but with the ‘hard-g’. I guess to be fair they would have more problems if they asked everyone to write ‘ĝ’.

      • RichieAdler 🇦🇷
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        7 days ago

        I guess to be fair they would have more problems if they asked everyone to write ‘ĝ’.

        They could have used the old “gh” convention.

    • Hexarei@programming.dev
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      7 days ago

      Yeah, even with my relatively limited Esperanto familiarity (mi estas ankoraŭ komencanto, sed mi povas legi kaj skribi iomete), I was originally confused by it as well when I started using it a few months ago. Then when I saw the explanation on the faq, I just found myself wondering why the heck they used g instead of ĝ.