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I’m not sure this would work. If you’re an American named Peter, should your British friends call you “Pete-uhh” or “Pete-ur”? I guess you could just decide tha
by Gaelan 7y ago
I’m not sure this would work. If you’re an American named Peter, should your British friends call you “Pete-uhh” or “Pete-ur”? I guess you could just decide that it should be the latter, but that’s a fairly big change from what’s done now.
- tareqak 7y agoYou could pick the letters that correspond to the way you want it to be sound since it is your name. I suppose there are people who may prefer the difference between the spelling and naïve pronunciation. Maybe an alphabet altogether separate from that used by the IPA would help?
- lloeki 7y agoEither one ought to be much better than a french robot pronouncing it “péter” (to fart)...