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#131387 08/12/04 03:17 PM
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Ok, first, what's IPA, please?

Here are some random symbols I clicked on:
/ɔ:ʊəɔɪəʊ/

Here they are with the -pre- tag:
/ɔ:ʊəɔɪəʊ/



#131389 08/13/04 12:41 AM
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Oooh! Neat, Jackie. The little rectangles get skinnier when you slap the /pre/ tag on them.


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#131392 08/13/04 02:12 AM
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International Phonetic Alphabet.

and I don't get no stinkin' squares. I see IPA... of course, it doesn't really spell anything, but...





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#131393 08/13/04 02:45 AM
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Ok, first, what's IPA, please?

It's the alphabet that linguists use to transcribe speech. IPA also stands for the International Phonetics Association which you can see spelled out in the IPA at the home site:

http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/IPA/ipa.html

I usually use SAMPA because not everybody can see the symbols in the Unicode range for the IPA.

http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/sampa/home.htm


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Incontinentia Pigmenti Achromians?


#131395 08/13/04 02:13 PM
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International Phonetic Alphabet. Oh yeah--thanks. (And a raspberry to the clowns! ) I knew that, but. Funny, isn't it, how nearly effortlessly we learn about things we're interested in, and how, in my case anyway, things I'm not interested in or don't think I'll ever have a use for, just kind of come into one side of my mind and trickle straight out the other.


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International Police Association?

http://www.ipa-iac.org/

Respectfully submitted,

One of the clowns



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