On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 4:19 PM, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com 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.
Quite. We need to make the distinction between exonym and endonym transcription. Endonyms come first, and exonym-repronunciations are noted as such. But likewise we can't get too stuffy about pronouncing words according to native phonologies, clicks and whirrs and so forth. :P
-Stevertigo