James D. Forrester wrote:
On Tuesday, March 22, 2005 5:00 PM, David Gerard
<fun(a)thingy.apana.org.au>
wrote:
This could be nightmarish in English - accents are
widely variant and
in Britain are used as markers of social status to a ridiculous
degree. This is of course highly politicised. I confidently predict
ten or more sound files per word.
Yes, but only /mine/ will be correct. ;-)
Actually, cataloguing them as "RP", "RRP", "Brummie",
"Ilkely", &c. would
probably be beneficial for our article on said accents.
Swings and roundabouts. :-)
Yours,
Hoi,
There is only one authorotive way of pronouncing a name and that is how
it is pronounced by the person himself. In the mean time I would want a
standard way of pronouncing a name. So I would go for a BBC kinda
pronouniation for British football stars. The aim of this excercise is
to have words pronounced for people who do not speak the language. The
intention is not to have it in all dialects. There would be not much
point to it.
PS I am producing a list of Dutch socces starts.. Half of them I do not
know, I just know how to pronounce it. :)
Thanks,
GerardM