Originally Posted By: va-vavoom
hmmm....I might like that source also. I was just writing a letter to a friend about the undecipherable pronunciation symbols sometimes used on here and saying that I preferred phonetics. (shouldn't THAT word start with an F?)


If by "undecipherable pronunciation symbols" you mean IPA they do have the advantage of meaning only one thing. Sometimes you'll see someone with non-rhotic speech using an R in a phonetic transcription of a word and you know there's no R sound in the word they're transcribing.