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 ingifno no no no no no no
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Yiff
gif is pronounced like the ‘g’ in ‘gigantic’
Cute. Just like you OP.
No u (too)
What’s it gonna take for them to just PLEASE give me the whole thing in one go? 😭
they do, it’s just written down. IPA isn’t that hard to learn.
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.
