[WikiEN-l] IPA issues

[Emily Monroe]

William, those are my concerns exactly (along with the "and which  
standard dialect of English should we use?" concern).

Emily
On Apr 24, 2010, at 10:17 AM, William Pietri wrote:

>
> Has anybody actually studied the effect on actual users of removing
> schemes like [[Wikipedia:Pronunciation respelling key]] in favor of  
> IPA?
>
> It's obvious that having IPA pronunciations advances our mission for a
> certain highly educated segment of user. But for the rest of our
> readers, the answer seems to be, "Well, you should learn IPA."
>
> Although it's probably true that they *should* learn it; the  
> question I
> think we should answer is whether they *are* learning it. If not, then
> stripping a key they can read in favor of one they can't would move us
> away from our vision, which is people sharing freely in knowledge.
>
> William
>
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