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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Det finns inte dåligt väder, bara dåliga kläder.
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