David Goodman <dgoodmanny(a)gmail.com> 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.
You forget an important point. enWP has many readers and contributors with English as
second language. They usually use IPA as reference how English is pronounced and have been
taught English this way. So effectively IPA is more native to them than all these ugly
English pronunciation guides.
Regards,
Peter
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