Daniel Ehrenberg wrote:
On the bike trip (and
previously at summer camp), I worked on a morphophonic
system in my head that is now almost fully functional,
using only lowercased roman alphabet letters and the
characters - ' ". I think that such a system would be
beneficial to Wikipedia and Wiktionary. Here are some
words transliterated into my system, which I'd like to
call the Wikipedia Morphophonic Pronounciation (WPMP):
wikipedia -> w-ek-ep-ed-e"u
wiktionary -> wi-ikshun-ar-e
Daniel Ehrenberg -> Dany-l E'rxnb-rg
unintuitive -> xnint'y-u"itiv
Everyone tries to invent their own phonetic system when they're in their
teens. I did.
But reinventing the wheel is generally a bad idea.
if every dictionary & encyclopedia has its own system, then it is not
transferable, and the reader has to relearn for each book they open.
Let's stick to something that is universal: IPA / SAMPA.