Re: [Foundation-l] Automatic username transliteration for SUL

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 &lt;saintonge(a)telus.net&gt; 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. :-) >