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).