QR codes are a good lown-cost idea too, as some Wikimaniacs have implemented their own this year. On Aug 12, 2011 11:33 AM, "Milos Rancic" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 00:15, Thomas Dalton <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 12 August 2011 01:10, Иванов Вячеслав <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Latin script may be so bewildering you know. >>> Reading a Hungarian or a Polish name in Latin may require knowing the orthography rules of those languages; and for reading an English name one may need to ask the bearer for the pronunciation :) And probably just IPA would be easier, though, yes, awkward too. >> >> For someone that knows IPA, IPA is definitely best. I don't think >> anyone will argue with that. For everyone else, though, the Latin >> alphabet at least gives us a fighting chance of getting close to the >> right pronunciation. You can always ask "did I say that right?" and >> get corrected. I would ask someone their name and, because it's an >> unfamiliar name to me, I would struggle to make out exactly what they >> said. If I could see it written down and hear it said, I could >> probably get it right. >> >> The other big problem with having names in IPA is that it requires >> attendees to know their name in IPA in order to put it on the name >> badge in the first place. That means it's only going to work when both >> the person whose name it is and the person reading it know IPA. That's >> going to be a pretty small proportion of pairings. > > Other way is to put cheap chips on the participants' badges with > spoken name and ability to take the information with [the most of] > smartphones. > > Some English transcription (not transliteration!) approximation (like > [1]) of the names inside of the parentheses should work well, too. > That's "IPA for those who don't know IPA". It is useful to have, for > example, "Tomash" for Polish "Tomasz" and Hungarian "Tomas". > > [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Pronunciation_respelling_key > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimania-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l
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