In esperanto all sustantives end with o, all adjectives with a, all adverbs with e and the direct object ends with n. The word Mageia ends with a, like an adjective. If you want to say "I use mageia" the word mageia should end with -on (substantive and direct object). If you use the original word it seems an adjective and it does not end with the N of the direct object. For that reason in esperanto is very common to convert the original names: linux to linukso, unix to unikso, windows to vindozo, etc.

I just wanted to explain why I chose the name "magejo" for the esperanto translation. Michael is correcting the translations, so, he can change the name of the distribution to the original word.

Regards.


2012/11/14 Romain d'Alverny <rdalverny@gmail.com>
2012/11/13 Michael Moroni <michael.moroni@mailoo.org>:
> On 13/11/2012 20:41, Pavel Fric wrote:
>
> There is another question. At the beginning I read the question concerning
> the thing with pronunciation. If I remember it correct, the pronunciation
> "M-aa-he-i-a" was recommended.
>
> In Esperanto ALL substantives end with -o. It's a rule of the Esperanto
> grammar.
> So we adapted "Mageia", which in Esperanto would be pronounced as /mage'ia/,
> to Esperanto pronouncation and rules: Magejo would be pronounced as
> /ma'gejo/
> Please tell me whether I must change to Mageia!

Ok, so it appears I don't know enough here. I expected to see the
name/brand unaltered in every language (but for pronunciation). Now,
if that's common in your language to do so with any brand name (say,
Coca-Cola, Mozilla, Firefox, IBM, etc.), I don't see why it would be
different here for Mageia.



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