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Re:Plover is a free, open-source stenography engine by celticninja on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @07:02AM (#27603059)
Indian pale ale?

Seems like this has upset some people.

https://www.google.com/search?q=ipa&oq=ipa&aqs=chrome.0.69i5...

First hit on Google is for India Pale Ales.

I always heard the phonetic alphabet referred to as the NATO phonetic alphabet. It doesn't seem very international given that it is entirely in English.

Also Russia has its own version https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_spelling_alphabet#:~....

So IPA is a bit of a misnomer I feel.

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Re:Plover is a free, open-source stenography engine by danaris on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @08:12AM (#27603520)
The International Phonetic Alphabet isn't just "Alpha, Bravo, Charlie"—in fact, it has absolutely nothing to do with the NATO "Phonetic Alphabet", and anywhere you heard that referred to as the International Phonetic Alphabet was just simply wrong. It's an actual alphabet, designed to represent all the phonemes humans actually use in speech—not just in English.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabe...

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Re:Plover is a free, open-source stenography engine by celticninja on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @08:44AM (#27603829)
Either way the acronym is ambiguous at best.
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Re:Plover is a free, open-source stenography engine by jhgb on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @04:01PM (#27609399)
How is IPA ambiguous when talking about pronunciations of words?
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Re:Plover is a free, open-source stenography engine by patmorgan23 on Thursday June 24, 2021 @09:58AM (#27617505)
If someone has no idea what IPA is, how are they supposed to figure it out when there's a bunch of other things that have the same acronym?
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Re:Plover is a free, open-source stenography engine by patmorgan23 on Thursday June 24, 2021 @10:01AM (#27617562)
Also, ALL acronyms are ambiguous. That's why it's best practice to say the actual thing you're talking about then put the acronym next to it the first time it's used.
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Re:Plover is a free, open-source stenography engine by celticninja on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @05:04PM (#27610342)
Well I googled IPA and the first Wikipedia hit (2nd result) was India Pale Ale, which is the acronym I am familiar with.

The first link was to https://ipa.co.uk Web results The Institute of Practitioners in Advertising: IPA

So I think calling it ambiguous is ok, you are if course free to disagree, but what I said wasn't fundamentally incorrect. But it seems like HN has a bee in its bonnet.

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