Hoi, I am really pleased for you that you know a bit about writing down phonetic script. Most people do not. I have not the foggiest if what you write is right or wrong. What I do know is that it is acknowledged that some phonetic script is not universal as it is often biased to the English language (making it unusable for other languages). I have a sore throat otherwise I would create a soundrecording and upload it to commons for you.
The big advantage of soundfiles is that you only need ears to hear and, it can be repeated as often as you like. This is the reason why I really want soundfiles so that people can find out how a name is pronounced when you read an wikipedia article like in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaap_de_Hoop_Scheffer or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silvio_Berlusconi or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush (to give you a Dutch, Italian and American example).
Even though the .ogg format is the standard filetype for use in Wikimedia, there are those people that do not apreciate the value of pronunciations and revert articles that contain a soundfile. The argument is that they do not like it or that they do not know the .ogg format. It is because of this that we need to stress the value of pronounciation. We need MORE soundfiles. We need to make soundfiles a standard part of what we do in our articles.
Soundfiles with pronunciations really adds value to our content.
Thanks, GerardM
Mark Williamson wrote:
Of course. But even with no training in Dutch, it's easy to guess that the proper pronunciation is somewhat like an Englishman's pronunciation of "ard".
Few languages written in the Roman alphabet use "a" for an /e/ sound or an /A/ sound.
Mark
On Apr 6, 2005 2:12 AM, Walter van Kalken walter@vankalken.net wrote:
Mark Williamson wrote:
Are you kidding? "Ad"? That has to be the easiest Dutch name in the world. "Huikeshoven" I admit I don't know how you would pronounce it, but I would go for /heIksofn/
He said try to pronounce it "correctly". If you pronounce it any anglophile would try to pronounce it .... it would be wrong.
Walter