To me IPA is likely to remain one of the scripts I will never learn, and whether I ought to learn it is besides the point The enWP is written in English. The explanations are in English. The pronunciations have to be given in a form English readers can read, even if it is only approximate. sound files would be wonderful, to be real they should be pronunciation by a native speaker of the appropriate language, not a machine. And there still needs to be an English readable and writeable equivalent, because someone might want something to transcribe as text.
Certainly a more correct pronunciation guide should be given, and we should continue using IPA also, and consider ourselves fortunate that there is only a single standard.
David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG
On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 10:22 PM, stevertigo stvrtg@gmail.com wrote:
Question - Is this wrong:
"Socrates (pronounced /ˈsɒkrətiːz/)"
Or really wrong?
-Stevertigo
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