I’ve always been afraid to even click on that thing, it looks like arcane academic patois that isn’t meant for mere mortals. But the tooltips make it very accessible.
The tooltips only appear to work on English words, however.
gas ingifWikipedia is flirting with you btw.
https://ipa-reader.com/ is also helpful.
The IPA is fantastically interesting.
I don’t agree with people who think it should replace our standard alphabets and syllabarries (it is jarring, at least in my opinion, to essentially read other people’s accents from written text when they don’t match your own), but it can be pretty useful in some situations… where you’re actually studying accents, or the most common ways things are said in other languages.
I tried to take a linguistics class in college and I just couldn’t internalize these characters. It was very difficult for me and I respect people who can.
What’s it gonna take for them to just PLEASE give me the whole thing in one go? 😭
The whole what? As in you think each Wikipedia article should start by describing every sound in the word?
Skeuomorph (sk like skin, eu like you, m like mat, o like orphan, ph like off)
In the mouseover tooltip, in list form, ideally.
