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It would be interesting to know more about why it failed. It's not obviously a dumb idea -it's basically Pinyin but for English, and that works very well for Ma
by ajb 1y ago
It would be interesting to know more about why it failed. It's not obviously a dumb idea -it's basically Pinyin but for English, and that works very well for Mandarin as far as I know, which has a similar memorisation hump to get over.
- em-bee 1y agoaccording to the wikipedia page about IPA it was connected to phonics and fell out of fashion because in the 70s educational theory turned away from phonics. so it didn't fail on its own but it got canceled out by another mistake.