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by rmgk 518 days ago
> I understand your first language is German. Figures.

I assume your argument is: “Everyone who had to learn English as a second language is so used to completely random pronunciation that they won’t complain about anything anymore”.
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homebrewer 518 days ago
It's just that German is close enough to Esperanto that I'm personally not particularly interested in what a German speaker thinks about the name. Ask a Mandarin/Japanese/Arabic/Ewe/Telugu/etc. speaker what they think.

(My first language is quite far away from both English and Esperanto, probably should have mentioned that in the original message.)

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rmgk 518 days ago
Maybe, but the pronunciation of the forge part is essentially just the English one (at least much, much closer to an attempted German pronunciation).

The jo part is close to German though, so maybe this is why it’s not too bad for someone who knows English and German. And everyone else gets to dislike at least some part of it :-)

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