Timwi wrote:
Here's what you were trying to write: everything else is sĭm'pəl ēnəf' for us to use. Geoffrey Thomas / jěf'rē tä'məs / JEF-ree TAH-muhs
A Unicode-capable mail/news client should be able to display this correctly.
However, I'm not a great fan of this system either. It is not significantly easier to generate than IPA, and it is certainly less universal (I, for once, have never come across it; maybe it's Americentric).
I thought it was fairly universal myself -- it's in every major dictionary I've used, including some of the results at www.dictionary.com. It's not particularly easy to generate, but it seems much easier to *read*.
-Mark