[WikiEN-l] Pronunciation guides

[Mirko Thiessen]

Hello,


I know that the pros and cons of pronunciation guides have been discussed 
before, but that was (AFAIR) before the Wiktionary project. I just had a 
new discussion with Arpingstone (if you can call this a discussion) about 
this topic:

http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Arpingstone

It appears to me, that a guide how to pronounce a word would rather belong 
to the Wiktionary project than to Wikipedia. In Wiktionary the 
pronunciation appears to be a regular paragraph, while it is in Wikipedia 
in one per thousand articles. What are your opinions about this?

In the above example Arpingstone added a sentence to the Bremen article: 
"The 'Bre' of Bremen rhymes with 'clay'." I removed that sentence, mainly 
because it is at most a rough approximation of the correct pronunciation.


Mirko (Cordyph)

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Mirko Thiessen
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