Re:Show HN: Add a play button next to IPA on Wikipedia
by BjoernKW on Wednesday June 28, 2017 @10:27AM
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As someone who can read IPA I'd rather have it the other way round (which unfortunately is not possible because it's not an injective relation).
It's bewildering even serious dictionary publishers now predominantly use pseudo-English transliteration in most of their products.
You can't really learn proper native pronunciation from such transliterations. They are an approximation at best (IPA is too, if you take accents into account but even then it's much more exact).
It's bewildering even serious dictionary publishers now predominantly use pseudo-English transliteration in most of their products.
You can't really learn proper native pronunciation from such transliterations. They are an approximation at best (IPA is too, if you take accents into account but even then it's much more exact).