Friday, September 23, 2011

Pronunciation guides should not be incomprehensible

Pronunciation guides should not be incomprehensible
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I mean really, if you publish the pronunciation guide to this word in the way Wikipedia does - you should be shot.
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Epistemology Listeni/ɨˌpɪstɨˈmɒləi/ (from Greek ἐπιστήμη (epistēmē), meaning "knowledge, science", and λόγος (logos), meaning "study of") 
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What is that?!  That guide to pronunciation is just silly.  If you don't know how to pronunce the word - that will certainly not help.
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This isn't even English
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lower case i with a dash through it? ɨ
alpha character? ɒ
upside down e? ə
zed?  Is that a zed? ʒ
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