Tom Parmenter wrote:
The intimidating SAMPA table gives examples like {
"as in London
English cat".
Hm. Must go clean that up!
Would that be Cockney or BBC? I don't speak
either. The best system for me would be to render it in Spanish,
Norwegian, or German, phonetic languages that I know how to
pronounce. (smiley)
Absolutely. We could have a SAMPA/German, SAMPA/Norwegian and
SAMPA/Spanish pages, each giving pronunciation guides for the same
common symbols.
And there's another case for using the IPA or a derivative: non-English
speakers won't necessarily know how to pronounce "CHOW-pek"