phonetic English is the path to global Balkanisation.
P.S.
I am currently doing a Swedish course in a group of 21 different nationalities. The English speaking people have by far the worst pronunciation, where the Americans are worse than the Scottish, Canadians or Australians (we don't have any English people). The worst way to write down a pronunciation is by trying to write it phonetically in English - you end up with pronunciations that are totally different from the way it is actually pronounced. My name is NOT pronounced "Gair-Rid Hole" - not even near (see [[en:User:Gerritholl]] for how it is), but I can't think of a closer approximation using this "phonetic transcription".
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