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(a)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
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