[WikiEN-l] Re: morphophonics for wikipedia

Wed Jul 30 17:47:40 UTC 2003

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