Hoi,
It does not. There is no standard yet that includes the differentiation
between spoken dialects. With the ISO-639-6 this will become to
differentiate between different linguistic entities even for pronunciations.
When this standard becomes functional, it will be possible to identify a
word as to be associated with a specific spoken linguistic entity and
consequently software will be able to guess how it needs to be pronounced.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 12/24/06, James Hare <messedrocker(a)gmail.com> wrote:
What I would like to know is how a machine will be able to deduce a
pronounciation through a username.
On 12/24/06, Ray Saintonge <saintonge(a)telus.net> wrote:
Neil Harris wrote:
> If we can make it as simple as that (and acknowledge that the
automatic
>
>transliteration will often be very, very, bad) we could possibly make
>this work, with the option to change your nick to something else later.
>
>Perhaps language -> IPA -> language might be a good way of helping the
m
>x n problem for this, in which case we could
use language <-> IPA
tables
to
bootstrap this.
Would this be a good idea, or would it be linguistic nonsense?
Probably linguistic nonsense. Although it serves a very useful purpose
in conveying pronunciations, anly a limited community interested in
linguistics will be familiar with it. For everybody else (which to be
fair must include the English speakers) it amounts to attaining equality
by putting everything into a common language which all will equally not
understand. :-)
Ec
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