Comment on The word "phonetic" is not spelled phonetically.

• teft@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Kind of. The IPA doesn’t show weak forms so non-native speakers can be confused by them if they only ever learned the dictionary way of pronouncing a word.

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  • livus@kbin.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ah that's interesting, I didn't know that.

    Still, the IPA is really helpful when trying to discuss pronunciation with someone who has a very different accent to ourselves.

    As a New Zealander I find some US phonetic spellings baffling.

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• AffineConnection@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  IPA is also useful for cleaning and drinking.

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