I think it's better that Wikipedia be usable to laypeople, and not be in "academic savior" mode.
Emily On Apr 21, 2010, at 6:19 PM, Gerard Meijssen wrote: > Hoi, > A lot of so called IPA out there is created by Americans for > Americans and > expect that certain sounds can be expressed by the ordinary Latin > characters. The consequence is that such polution makes the whole of > IPA > hard to use. > > Consequently I argue that in order to save the usefulness of IPA at > all we > HAVE to be academically correct in how it is expressed. > Thanks, > GerardM > > On 22 April 2010 00:58, Nathan <[email protected]> wrote: > >> What's the point of using a phonetic alphabet that 95% of our >> readership can't interpret? If the idea is to help readers understand >> how a word is pronounced in English, it should actually be useful to >> the majority of readers and not largely useless but academically >> perfect. >> >> Nathan >> >> _______________________________________________ >> foundation-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/ >> foundation-l >> > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
