I think it's better that Wikipedia be usable to laypeople, and not be in "academic savior" mode.
Emily On 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.
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. Thanks, GerardM
On 22 April 2010 00:58, Nathan nawrich@gmail.com 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 useless but academically perfect.
Nathan
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