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VictorTaelin / Bitspeak

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Use the IPA to make the pronunciation guide precise and unambiguous #1

Open tsbockman opened 4 years ago

tsbockman commented 4 years ago

Trying to explain pronunciation by comparing to that of other words only works well when everyone speaks the same dialect. Even two people who are both educated native speakers of the same language may disagree on the interpretation of such informal pronunciation guides, if they are from different cities or cultural groups.

The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) was developed by linguists to solve this problem. I suggest adding an additional column to the pronunciation guide with the IPA symbols and links to audio samples.

VictorTaelin commented 4 years ago

I think it is a good idea to add IPA to the pronounce table and keep the English pronunciation as examples. Won't do since I'm busy with other things, but a PR is appreciated.