On Mon, Aug 05, 2002 at 10:41:46AM -0700, Ray Saintonge wrote:
Jaap van Ganswijk wrote:
At 2002-08-05 17:03 +0100, tarquin wrote:
Paper encyclopedias expect their readers to learn the order of the letters of the alphabet. Learning SAMPA is relatively simple. While the table on [[SAMPA]] is increasingly complex, there is a shorter version on a sub-page which a link like [[pronounced]] should direct readers to. It's a small effort to learn, for a large gain afterwards.
Unlike what is possible in a paper encyclopedium, why not add a small wav file of someone pronouncing the word correctly?
This is a much better idea than most attempts at divining pronunciation into a strange set of symbols including highly accepted sets such as IPA.
As a reader I think I would prefer having all three options. Sometimes I only want to quickly get a rough idea of the pronounciation, sometimes I want to know it exactly, and in some cases I even want to know how a Russian pronounces Glasnost. So what is the problem with having all three solutions?
-- Jan Hidders