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DrizzleMan
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23 Oct 2005, 11:09 am

NeantHumain wrote:
I was hoping many of you would be enthused to learn a system that enables utterances spoken in any human language to be transcribed accurately and reproduceably.


Not entirely accurate, considering that there's near infinite resolution. To approach real accuracy you have to add diacritical marks. Besides which, how are you supposed to type these symbols?


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23 Oct 2005, 11:14 am

DrizzleMan wrote:
Besides which, how are you supposed to type these symbols?


That's what I was gonna post. But add "How are we supposed to type these symbols if we don't want to have to cut and paste them all?"


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23 Oct 2005, 12:18 pm

Mish.

Not mitch.



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23 Oct 2005, 3:22 pm

DrizzleMan wrote:
NeantHumain wrote:
I was hoping many of you would be enthused to learn a system that enables utterances spoken in any human language to be transcribed accurately and reproduceably.


Not entirely accurate, considering that there's near infinite resolution. To approach real accuracy you have to add diacritical marks. Besides which, how are you supposed to type these symbols?

For phonological transcription of English, diacretic marks for things like vowel length are unnecessary. We're talking about phonemic representations here, not phonetic ones.

You can take the Unicode character by typing an ampersand (&), then a number sign (#), then the decimal value of the symbol, and then a semicolon (;).

For those of you unfamiliar with linguistics and the International Phonetic Alphabet, please read International Phonetic Alphabet (Wikipedia).