Mattis Manzel
Mattis is a wiki-witer, born in ‘60 in Berlin
Mattis started the language-simple-center-wiki on 2007-01-08.
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greetingz. I like the idea for this wiki. can you do IPA symbols on here? cuz latin letters will represent different phoneticks for various languages. I know you guys have been working on interlingual projects for a while here @ community- lemme know if I can help. CoolHeadz:Gargler
MattisManzel:
I got to admit I never tried on IPA Symbols but I suppose - as Oddmuse handles uft-8, which can display kinda “everything” - that it’s possible. I’m anyhow rather looking to get phonetics for all (or possibly many languages) constructed “half-way precisely” from the “standard” letter set, using few “irregular” ones like ð for “th” (similar in Icelandic) - AltGr? + “D” on my keyboard - for example. Also “iúse” accents to indicate length of vocals. IPA is facinating and precise but it is for language scientist kinda. One can reach easy readability and major simplifications for text-to-speach and speach-to text software in a far less complex way, I suppose. English is one of the difficult languages to simplify the spelling of rather.
An intelligent Greek friend of mine who doesn’t speak a sentence of German could read a text on the Doitz-ainfac-viki almost without mistakes and perfectly understandable to a German after about 40 seconds and two, three corrections. She herself hadn’t seen simplified witten German before and frankly didn’t understand a word of what she read, true. But it fascinated me.
- All this pronounciation (pronaunsiäzn) bogus! We’re in 2007 I mean, and we have the internet.
