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Any product name that needs a voice file to explain itself is a bad name π€¦ what were they thinking?
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I have some bad new for you about Linux...
I hadn't heard that before, but that is exactly how I also pronounce it π
Rijndael is pronounced AES.
Let me guess: You think everyone needs to speak english?
Imagine seething at words in a language you don't speak because you don't speak it
Your assumptions betray you. I speak 4 languages fluently/natively and two-three more poorly. English is not my native language.
This is not about language, but about marketing. Thank you.
"i, in all of my infinite wisdom and knowledge, knower of four languages, cant pronounce word therefore bad marketing" π
seriously why do you care so much about the marketing ability of a foss tool? they arent selling it?
Seems to me that you are the seething one, not me. Taking a walk might improve your mood.
Ubuntu: Super marketable, everyone can pronounce it, no confusion, easily understandable by four language knowing people
Gentoo: So easy to remember, marketing geniuses
Godot: Inpossible to pronounce incorrectly. Children are born knowing how to say it. Exemplars of universal human communication.
Forgejo: What were they even thinking? So bad. Who can even understand it without a dedicated audio file? People who know four languages struggle with it. A failure.
We can name things Forge in English, but not in a different language without your criticism?
I wouldn't call that "seething", the project is targeting an English speaking audience (English is the source, other languages are translation targets), effectively no one is a native speaker of Esperanto, and it's usage is small enough that someone could quite possibly never encounter the language.
Bad project names are common enough in programming and open source, and complained about, that I wouldn't jump right to xenophobia as the reason someone might complain that a project picked a name knowing it would be difficult to pronounce.
They can name it whatever they want, but getting that angry that someone didn't recognize a word in an anglisiced spelling of a word from a niche language is uncalled for.