Justas🇱🇹@sh.itjust.works to Programming@programming.dev · 1 month agoForget "gif" vs "jif" debate. How does one pronounce "Forgejo"?message-squaremessage-square51fedilinkarrow-up1121arrow-down112
arrow-up1109arrow-down1message-squareForget "gif" vs "jif" debate. How does one pronounce "Forgejo"?Justas🇱🇹@sh.itjust.works to Programming@programming.dev · 1 month agomessage-square51fedilink
minus-square2xsaikolinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 month agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/English This is phonetic1 spelling. The only good one. 1 Actually phonemic. Don’t kill me
minus-squareRogue@feddit.uklinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·1 month agoIs anyone able to read IPA without that key? This is where I get lost. It’s an entire new language for a very specific thing so I can’t imagine anyone but language scholars finding it useful
minus-squareElsie@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 month agoyeah I can read without the key, it’s not that hard, and it’s not a new language, it’s just a script that unambiguously maps phonemes to “letters”.
minus-square2xsaikolinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-21 month agoThe ones used for English? Sure. When it comes to other languages I certainly don’t know all of them though. Though, that is at least partially due to me learning English as a second language so I’ve looked at these a lot in dictionaries.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/English
This is phonetic1 spelling. The only good one.
1 Actually phonemic. Don’t kill me
Is anyone able to read IPA without that key? This is where I get lost. It’s an entire new language for a very specific thing so I can’t imagine anyone but language scholars finding it useful
yeah I can read without the key, it’s not that hard, and it’s not a new language, it’s just a script that unambiguously maps phonemes to “letters”.
The ones used for English? Sure. When it comes to other languages I certainly don’t know all of them though.
Though, that is at least partially due to me learning English as a second language so I’ve looked at these a lot in dictionaries.