Justas🇱🇹 to Programming@programming.dev • 7 months agoForget "gif" vs "jif" debate. How does one pronounce "Forgejo"?message-square50fedilinkarrow-up1121arrow-down112
arrow-up1109arrow-down1message-squareForget "gif" vs "jif" debate. How does one pronounce "Forgejo"?Justas🇱🇹 to Programming@programming.dev • 7 months agomessage-square50fedilink
minus-squaredblsaikolinkfedilink2•6 months agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/English This is phonetic1 spelling. The only good one. 1 Actually phonemic. Don’t kill me
minus-square@Rogue@feddit.uklinkfedilink2•6 months 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-squareElsielinkfedilink2•6 months 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-squaredblsaikolinkfedilink1•edit-26 months 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.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/English
This is phonetic1 spelling. The only good one.
1 Actually phonemic. Don’t kill me
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.