On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 3:58 PM, Nathan wrote:
> What's the point of using a phonetic alphabet that 95% of our
> readership can't interpret? If the idea is to help readers understand
> how a word is pronounced in English, it should actually be useful to
> the majority of readers and not largely us
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 4:19 PM, Gerard Meijssen
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.
Hoi,
It is much easier to have sound files that have you listen to it. I had
added soundfiles to Jaap de Hoop Scheffer among others on the English WP.. I
had an Italian friend do Silvio Berluscone
For whatever reason they were removed.. Dutch can be hard language to
pronounce .. and as has been sa
Enabling a pop-up (for example) for the IPA prononciation would be a big
plus as far as I am concerned.
I've never quite got my head around it, but can see its usefulness. This is
particularly useful when the word is of non-English extraction: I find it an
added benefit to see the word in its origi
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 6:19 PM, Gerard Meijssen
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.
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 a
What's the point of using a phonetic alphabet that 95% of our
readership can't interpret? If the idea is to help readers understand
how a word is pronounced in English, it should actually be useful to
the majority of readers and not largely useless but academically
perfect.
Nathan
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