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No, "car as in character" is still. Car as in carpet, char as in chart - simple and doesn't require a course in IPA, which may I remind you precisely nobody un
by dave2000 10y ago
No, "car as in character" is still. Car as in carpet, char as in chart - simple and doesn't require a course in IPA, which may I remind you precisely nobody understands.
- cbd1984 10y ago> a course in IPA, which may I remind you precisely nobody understands. Plenty of people understand IPA. > No, "car as in character" is still. It's still completely incomprehensible unless you know which vowel sound is meant, which is the whole point of this sub-thread.
- dave2000 10y agoI don't know what happened to my post but i meant "car as in character is stupid/ambiguous". But it's perfectly possible to understand "car as in carpet" and it's generally possible to find a similar pronunciation of a sound. "Plenty of people" is misleading. Plenty as in thousands, millions of people worldwide, possibly, not not plenty as a percentage of the english people world. I'd be surprised if more than 5% of english speakers look at an IPA description of a sound and do anything other than go "what the fuck does that mean?".