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Zzineohp 3,744 11 months ago
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Not too fond of the IPA. I think I articulated my points well enough this time around. The symbols we use for phonemes are arbitrary, and there are two schools of thought: give people a vague idea, and try to convey the actual complexity. I just think it's better to open the door to non-linguists. 0:00 Introduction 0:21 the Realization Machine 1:30 Changing the Symbol doesn't fix anything 2:05 Historical Linguistics 2:28 Good Enough 3:00 Narrow Transcription 3:33 Significant Figures 4:08 Care about giving people the right idea 4:39 IPA Keyboards 5:28 the X-Sampa

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