[WikiEN-l] Re: morphophonics for wikipedia

Wed Jul 30 11:13:41 UTC 2003

On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 06:58:03PM -0700, Geoffrey Thomas wrote:
> Even better is the limited letters-only system used in textbooks that aren't
> dictionaries: complex words are repeated in identical-sounding imitations
> (I-mi-TAY-shuns). If this latter system is formalized (FAR-muh-liyzd) it
> may be simpler than SAMPA for those who don't have the time to learn it.

That doesn't seem to bear any relation to the way I pronounce
formalised, and for what it's worth I "vote" that only names should
have any kind of pronunciation information; leave that to dictionaries,
which can concentrate on particular dialect(s).