On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 4:19 PM, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijs...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hoi, > A lot of so called IPA out there is created by Americans for Americans and > expect that certain sounds can be expressed by the ordinary Latin > characters. The consequence is that such polution makes the whole of IPA > hard to use. > > Consequently I argue that in order to save the usefulness of IPA at all we > HAVE to be academically correct in how it is expressed.
Quite. We need to make the distinction between exonym and endonym transcription. Endonyms come first, and exonym-repronunciations are noted as such. But likewise we can't get too stuffy about pronouncing words according to native phonologies, clicks and whirrs and so forth. :P -Stevertigo _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
