>My read on the
situation is that we should come up with the most elegant
pronunciation guide.
I believe that this guide should be usable across a
range of languages other
than English.
>This has largely been achieved
by IPA so the pronunciation guide should
probably be a simplified
variant of IPA. The simplifications include
finding alternatives for
the special characters used in IPA.
>The next step would be to
produce a dictionary that used this notation and
then promote the script
as a secondary code for the writing of English.
>What if every school child
had to spell their name phonetically using this
phonetic notation?
Eventually, authors would start using the notation to
clarify the pronunciation
of place names and other obscure words.
>Currently there are about
ten different notations used in pronunciation
guides. None of them
are suitable for writing. Usually, if you move from
one dictionary to another,
you have to learn a new guide.
>Steve
Taam
commented:
Az thu authher uv thu oenlee
truelee funnetik skeem in thu SSS (and in thu
werld, ie thheenk) ie upllaud
theez kaaments bie Steev (Steve). Mie
aabzervvaeshinz aar theez,
az iev bin saeyeeng for aulmoest 2 yeerz nou in
this forim.
1. Thu werld needz
wwun funnetik speleeng standerd. (Chek travlang'z "word
of the day" tue klik tue
heer vaireeyoos laengwijiz prunnountsd and see
vaireeyoos speleengs for
thu saem foeneemz.)
2. Enee speleeng skeem
that akts az u prunnunseeyyaeshin gied must
dieyulekts difrintlee.
ie, thu UK speleeng wil bee difrint than thu USA
verzhin. It must reefllekt
hou wee speek. ie gras vs graas. This iz noe
big deel ie thheenk.
3. Enee speleeng skeem
must hav u wae uv indikaeting sillabik stres. This
iz u must. Just pikcher
thu IPA prunnunseeyyaeshin gied witthhout thoez
stress maarks. That
wood bee inkumplleet inddeed.
4. Reespeleeng naemz
haz bin thu soel praavints uv truespel aan this bord
tue shoe that it iz yuesfool
in this aireeyu. ie Zerriintskis iz hou yue
sae mie sernaem "Zurinskas".
5. Tue reeddues thu
lerneeng kerv, truespel iz deezziend tue yuez moest
kunssistint Eenglish foeneemz
az paasibool. This sumtiemz reezzults in
launger werdz houwwever.
This iz u vairee smaul pries tue pae, ie beelleev.
When we beekkum siet uddaptid
tue thu truespeleeng doent reed seengool werdz
eneewae, but skan hoel lienz
instted, withh noe laus uv speed ie beeleev.
Taam (Tom) truespel
nj usa
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