[WikiEN-l] IPA issues

[Emily Monroe]

Okay, but which pronoucation should we use? Australian English?  
British English? Canadian English? Does this matter with IPA?

Emily
On Apr 24, 2010, at 12:31 AM, David Goodman wrote:

> To me IPA is likely to remain one of the  scripts I will never learn,
> and whether I ought to learn it is besides the point The enWP is
> written in English. The explanations are in English. The
> pronunciations have to be given in a form English readers can read,
> even if it is only approximate. sound files would be wonderful, to be
> real they should be pronunciation by a native speaker of the
> appropriate language, not a machine. And there still needs to be an
> English readable and writeable equivalent, because someone might want
> something to transcribe as text.
>
> Certainly a more correct pronunciation guide should be given, and we
> should continue using IPA also, and consider ourselves  fortunate that
> there is only a single  standard.
>
>
>
> David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG
>
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 10:22 PM, stevertigo <stvrtg at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Question - Is this wrong:
>>
>>> "Socrates (pronounced /ˈsɒkrətiːz/)"
>>
>> Or really wrong?
>>
>> -Stevertigo
>>
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