Justas🇱🇹@sh.itjust.works to Programming@programming.dev · 27 days agoForget "gif" vs "jif" debate. How does one pronounce "Forgejo"?message-squaremessage-square51fedilinkarrow-up1121arrow-down112
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minus-squareRogue@feddit.uklinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·25 days agoIs anyone able to read IPA without that key? This is where I get lost. It’s an entire new language for a very specific thing so I can’t imagine anyone but language scholars finding it useful
minus-squareElsie@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up2·25 days agoyeah I can read without the key, it’s not that hard, and it’s not a new language, it’s just a script that unambiguously maps phonemes to “letters”.
minus-square2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-225 days agoThe ones used for English? Sure. When it comes to other languages I certainly don’t know all of them though. Though, that is at least partially due to me learning English as a second language so I’ve looked at these a lot in dictionaries.
Is anyone able to read IPA without that key? This is where I get lost. It’s an entire new language for a very specific thing so I can’t imagine anyone but language scholars finding it useful
yeah I can read without the key, it’s not that hard, and it’s not a new language, it’s just a script that unambiguously maps phonemes to “letters”.
The ones used for English? Sure. When it comes to other languages I certainly don’t know all of them though.
Though, that is at least partially due to me learning English as a second language so I’ve looked at these a lot in dictionaries.