On Aug 12, 2011 11:33 AM, "Milos Rancic" <millosh@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 00:15, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 12 August 2011 01:10, Иванов Вячеслав <v.ivanov@amikeco.ru> wrote:
>>> Latin script may be so bewildering you know.
>>> Reading a Hungarian or a Polish name in Latin may require knowing the orthography rules of those languages; and for reading an English name one may need to ask the bearer for the pronunciation :)  And probably just IPA would be easier, though, yes, awkward too.
>>
>> For someone that knows IPA, IPA is definitely best. I don't think
>> anyone will argue with that. For everyone else, though, the Latin
>> alphabet at least gives us a fighting chance of getting close to the
>> right pronunciation. You can always ask "did I say that right?" and
>> get corrected. I would ask someone their name and, because it's an
>> unfamiliar name to me, I would struggle to make out exactly what they
>> said. If I could see it written down and hear it said, I could
>> probably get it right.
>>
>> The other big problem with having names in IPA is that it requires
>> attendees to know their name in IPA in order to put it on the name
>> badge in the first place. That means it's only going to work when both
>> the person whose name it is and the person reading it know IPA. That's
>> going to be a pretty small proportion of pairings.
>
> Other way is to put cheap chips on the participants' badges with
> spoken name and ability to take the information with [the most of]
> smartphones.
>
> Some English transcription (not transliteration!) approximation (like
> [1]) of the names inside of the parentheses should work well, too.
> That's "IPA for those who don't know IPA". It is useful to have, for
> example, "Tomash" for Polish "Tomasz" and Hungarian "Tomas".
>
> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Pronunciation_respelling_key
>
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