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

[Emily Monroe]

I think it's better that Wikipedia be usable to  laypeople, and not be  
in "academic savior" mode.

Emily
On Apr 21, 2010, at 6:19 PM, Gerard Meijssen wrote:

> 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
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> foundation-l mailing list
>> foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org
>> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/ 
>> foundation-l
>>
> _______________________________________________
> WikiEN-l mailing list
> WikiEN-l at lists.wikimedia.org
> To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit:
> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l