[Foundation-l] [WikiEN-l] IPA issues

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
A lot of so called IPA out there is created by Americans for Americans and
expect that certain sounds can be expressed by the ordinary Latin
characters. The consequence is that such polution makes the whole of IPA
hard to use.

Consequently I argue that in order to save the usefulness of IPA at all we
HAVE to be academically correct in how it is expressed.
Thanks,
     GerardM

On 22 April 2010 00:58, Nathan <nawrich at gmail.com> wrote:

> What's the point of using a phonetic alphabet that 95% of our
> readership can't interpret? If the idea is to help readers understand
> how a word is pronounced in English, it should actually be useful to
> the majority of readers and not largely useless but academically
> perfect.
>
> Nathan
>
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