Timwi wrote:
Here's what you were trying to write:
everything else is sĭm'pəl ēnəf' for us to use.
Geoffrey Thomas / jěf'rē tä'məs / JEF-ree TAH-muhs
A Unicode-capable mail/news client should be able to display this
correctly.
However, I'm not a great fan of this system either. It is not
significantly easier to generate than IPA, and it is certainly less
universal (I, for once, have never come across it; maybe it's
Americentric).
I thought it was fairly universal myself -- it's in every major
dictionary I've used, including some of the results at
www.dictionary.com. It's not particularly easy to generate, but it
seems much easier to *read*.
-Mark