Daniel Ehrenberg wrote:
On the bike trip (and previously at summer camp), I worked on a morphophonic system in my head that is now almost fully functional, using only lowercased roman alphabet letters and the characters - ' ". I think that such a system would be beneficial to Wikipedia and Wiktionary. Here are some words transliterated into my system, which I'd like to call the Wikipedia Morphophonic Pronounciation (WPMP):
wikipedia -> w-ek-ep-ed-e"u wiktionary -> wi-ikshun-ar-e Daniel Ehrenberg -> Dany-l E'rxnb-rg unintuitive -> xnint'y-u"itiv
Everyone tries to invent their own phonetic system when they're in their teens. I did. But reinventing the wheel is generally a bad idea. if every dictionary & encyclopedia has its own system, then it is not transferable, and the reader has to relearn for each book they open. Let's stick to something that is universal: IPA / SAMPA.