On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 4:19 PM, Gerard Meijssen
<gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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.
Quite. We need to make the distinction between exonym and endonym
transcription. Endonyms come first, and exonym-repronunciations are
noted as such. But likewise we can't get too stuffy about pronouncing
words according to native phonologies, clicks and whirrs and so forth.
:P
-Stevertigo