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.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 22 April 2010 00:58, Nathan <nawrich(a)gmail.com> wrote:
What's the point of using a phonetic alphabet that
95% of our
readership can't interpret? If the idea is to help readers understand
how a word is pronounced in English, it should actually be useful to
the majority of readers and not largely useless but academically
perfect.
Nathan
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