On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 15:47 +0000, James Farrar wrote:
On 18/01/2008, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
IPA is great for giving precise pronunciations, but simpler methods are great for people that just want a general idea so they can read the article (unpronounceable words can make it hard to read something, even silently - it disrupts the flow). Oh, any less of the "tiny", if you don't mind...
Some articles have ogg files with the pronunciation, which I have found rather helpful in some cases.
Yeah, that seems to be one of best solutions: IPA + audio. I find the rhymes with x solution rather amateurish and encyclopedic to be fair. As soon as I get a decent microphone, which I'll actually order straight after posting this, I'll start recording names for foreign people from German, Austria and Switzerland and possibly do some work on Chinese names (or get a friend to sit down and do it).
Ian [[User:Poeloq]]