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

[quiddity]

Sometimes even a sound file doesn't help some of us.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fb/Eyjafjallaj%C3%B6kull-bjarmason.ogg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyjafjallaj%C3%B6kull
which still makes me smile every time I hear it.

ipa+sound file, is probably the most practical&ideal end goal. unless
we had a preference-gadget to provide the alternative pronunciation
guides..


[or something like that wikidata-semantic-database project, that was
going to further-revolutionize our Wiktionary and Wikipedia projects,
by making data like this extractable and embeddable. Whatever happened
to that? Probably a different thread...]
Quiddity



On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 12:17 AM, Gerard Meijssen
<gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hoi,
> It is much easier to have sound files that have you listen to it. I had
> added soundfiles to Jaap de Hoop Scheffer among others on the English WP.. I
> had an Italian friend do Silvio Berluscone
>
> For whatever reason they were removed.. Dutch can be hard language to
> pronounce .. and as has been said, IPA is not universally understood.
> Thanks.
>     GerardM