Toby Bartels wrote:
Brion Vibber wrote:
Tarquin wrote:
And for that matter, how does the writer pronounce
the word "chop"?
AmEng and BrEng have different vowels for that word.
I would expect that same difference to be reflected in their
*anglicized* pronunciation of "Čapek". Am I wrong?
IANAB (I am not a Brit), but I think that you are wrong.
But this doesn't invalidate your ultimate point;
it just means that the guide should say "CHAHP-ek" instead.
Great! Then please change it.
See
[[Clitoris]] for an example: it has a link to [[SAMPA|pronounced]],
a SAMPA representation (correctly in [phonetic transcription brackets]),
an approximation in English orthography, and a wav file (should it be an
ogg?).
How are the phonetic brackets correct? *I* don't pronounce it that way!
But change it to phonemic slashes, and suddenly I do.
Unless we're describing distinct dialects, brackets will always be wrong.
Is the wav file incorrect, then? It's much more precise and dialect-
specific, including detail that the phonetic transcription does not.
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)