tarquin wrote:
I suggest we formulate a policy on using SAMPA for pronunciation of words In the long run, IPA might be nicer, since paper dictionaries & encyclopedias use it. However, until there's good support for Unicode, sampa is readable on any browser. If at some point we can switch, the two are in direct correspondance.
I've started looking for articles which use pseudo-phonetic transcriptions, & putting a list on http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/SAMPA/To_Do
We could make [[pronounced]] a redirect to SAMPA, or a simplified SAMPA table page for ease of linking from articles which give pronunciation.
SAMPA may be readable by any browser, but is certainly not readable by most humans. Why should SAMPA's system of pseudo-phonetics be preferable to those that are already used? Apart from any article about the history of SAMPA, the best place for this peculiar example of eurocentrism is in the trash bin.
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