4 ms·
> Ji (pronounced gee) The "g" in "pronounced gee" obfuscates your intent. Use IPA if you want to clarify pronunciation.
by ebg13 7y ago
> Ji (pronounced gee)
The "g" in "pronounced gee" obfuscates your intent. Use IPA if you want to clarify pronunciation.
- dragonwriter 7y agoIPA helps if you want to be very clear to the very small proportion of the population familiar with IPA and completely obscure to everyone else; using an existing, common word like “gee” is more clear to most people than IPA would be.
- OJFord 7y agoThe very small population that knows how to perform an Internet Search or owns a dictionary? You don't need to know IPA off by heart for it to be useful, I certainly don't, I only recognise a few characters, or whatever they're called. 'Gee' isn't terrible in combination with the name itself ('ji') since it eliminates options. Better IMO if you want to avoid IPA is giving an example like 'the first syllable in 'genius'', but that's not so good (or at least much harder) for polysyllabic names of things.
- dileti 7y agoMore to cater to the relatively large population that isn't on the autistic spectrum, has OCPD (obsessive-compulsive personality disorder), or knows IPA well. Without trying to ostracize that smaller group of people, the bulk of the population is used to comparing to "sounds alike" words and would not take to well to... "it's just IPA, go look it up."
- quickthrower2 7y agoI took gee to mean like "ghee" the butter is pronounced. But maybe he means the way you say G the letter?
- ebg13 7y agoHe probably means like in "GIF".
- quickthrower2 7y agoI’m guessing you are joking as there are at least 2 ways people pronounce that abbreviation.
- ebg13 7y agoYes.