[WikiEN-l] IPA issues

stevertigo stvrtg at gmail.com
Sat Apr 24 21:27:18 UTC 2010


>And like DGG said, we're fortunate to have a single internaʃonal
> standard in the first place.

I had a thought. We put so much cultural value into proper spelliŋ.
One of the reasons for why theres so much dislike for a strange scheme
like IPA is that repelling English words using a different scheme
works to destroy the deeply-engrained informaʃon about word
etymologies stored in "proper" spelling.

-Stevertigo



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