When communicating on noisy #radio channels I use a #phonetic spelling alphabet. My #hamradio #FCC call sign W9GYR is spoken "Whiskey Niner Golf Yankee Romeo" (ICAO / NATO / ITU 1950s-today)
My grandfather would have said "William Nine George Young Robert" (Western Union 1918 / ARRL 1932-1946)
For commercial radio traffic "Washington Nine Gallipoli Yokohama Roma" (ITU 1932-1947)
There are over 200 alphabets that were used historically, or in different languages.
The #Cherokee #language #syllabus with #English #translation and #phonetic pronunciation
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Random Wikipedia #criticism (rant?)...
One of the things that bugs me about (English) #Wikipedia is how aspects of it are controlled by, for lack of a better word, #pedants, without consideration of the actual #readers - without considering the purpose of an encyclopedia.
One example of this is how, when an article features aspects of another language or dialect - for instance, something from Old English, or Arabic - where the reader will not be familiar with how to pronounce something presented transliterated to a modern Latin/English alphabet, or with a word shown in a non-Latin script entirely.
It used to be common in reference works to give a simple #pronunciation key that was at least close to the correct pronunciation, but was easily understood by a normal literate reader. You know; the stuff that looked like "ED-joo-KAY-shun" or "SHEH-joo-ull" or whatever.
Well, that's not good enough for Wikipedia most of the time. Instead, they give the pronunciation in International #Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), so you get stuff like "æɪ" and "aʊ" and "/ɔː/".
These are absolutely more #accurate guides to how a word should sound. And they are absolutely, completely #useless and #uninformative to 99% of people reading the article.
You know who already knows and is completely comfortable reading #IPA?
#Linguists. Students of language.
You know, the people who *already know* how to #pronounce the words. The people who don't actually need it.
#FFS.
Interesting to see letters like :Dania_LongI:, :Phonotypic_ith:, and :Phonotypic_oi: proposed for inclusion in Unicode! :Unicode:
#EnglishPhonotypicAlphabet #PhonotypicAlphabet #Phonotypic #Dania #Phonetic #Phonetics #PhoneticTranscription #Unicode
Love it! ❤️ Last year I had a similar thought, and created the Janian #PhoneticAlphabet, an intentionally useless #phonetic #alphabet based on rhyming my first name! 😂
Why should NATO get all the fun?
Ann
Ban
Can
Dan
Ean
Fan
Gan
Han
Ian
Jan
Kan
Lan
Man
Nan
Oan
Pan
Qan
Ran
San
Tan
Uan
Van
Wan
Xan
Yan
Zan
This laptop is at work and I am at home right now so I can't give you any specs. :(
Question #2 is about installing a different keyboard layout on my home laptop. Mint works super. What I want is a #phonetic #keyboard. I have downloaded and installed keyman and the IPA keyboard-thingy recommended by UCL Phonetics department. So far so good, I can't seem to get it to work. What do I have to do?
I got my first #tattoo!
It's the #phonetic #transcription of *how* my #toddler said *his* #firstWord.
Our new #OpenAccess paper is out in Scientific Reports today!
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-77634-w My coauthors and I jokingly called it "the masterpiece" because it wraps up a research line I began during my PhD... 10 years ago! Here's a quick thread on the backstory and what we found: https://fediscience.org/@LeoVarnet/113469639569615172. @psycholinguistic @psycholinguistic #psycholinguistics #psycholinguistique #phonetic #phonetics #NewPaper #NewArticle #ScienceMastodon
Our new #OpenAccess paper is out in Scientific Reports today! My coauthors and I jokingly called it "the masterpiece" because it wraps up a research line I began during my PhD ... 10 years ago! Here's a quick thread on the backstory and what we found. [1/X]
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-77634-w @psycholinguistics @psycholinguistic #psycholinguistics #psycholinguistique #phonetic #phonetics #NewPaper #NewArticle #ScienceMastodon
The #NATO #Phonetic #Alphabet from #TfL's Big Red Book Fifth Edition (guidance for #London Bus drivers).
Which is used by London Bus drivers to spell out a street name or a vehicle registration over the radio to the NMCC (Network Management Control Centre), formerly CentreComm.
What #Alien Clouds Can Tell Us About #Life Beyond #Earth : Medium
Scientists say they’ve discovered a ‘#Phonetic #Alphabet’ in #Whale calls : CNN
How to Start #Strength #Training if You’ve Never Done It Before : Time
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#Phonetic Password #Generator | generatore di #password fonetiche
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@jzillw Your solution of recording your pronunciation is good! There is a system of writing where each symbol represents one and only one sound. It's called IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet). The characters are based on the anatomy of making sounds (position of tongue, lips, etc.) I worked with an engineer from China who mentioned that when learning English in school, they also learned IPA since English letters can represent more than one sound. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet #ipa #phonetic
Beste Winter Wensen!
'Weer een jaar voorbij... De tijd gaat steeds maar sneller... en stijgt in waarde."
#haiku #chantsofsennaar #puzzle #phonetic #CrackingTheCryptic
I had this pendant 3D-printed for my girlfriend [now wife]. It's the IPA-letter ɕ or "c with curl" (U+0255), which stands for the voiceless alveolo-palatal sibilant, or the sound normally spelled sj in Danish. | #lingvistik #linguistics #unicode #ipa #internationalphoneticalphabet #sje #voiceless #alveolopalatal #sibilant #consonant #phonetics #phonetic #jewelry #3dprint #3dprinting #ɕ #munk_typography
(First posted 11 May 2017 by me [@]munk_typography@instagram.com)
If you are interested in understanding #Chinese #characters through their #phonetic groups, then this web page might interest you:
https://analyticphysics.com/Language/Chinese%20Phonetic%20Groups.htm
I'm currently helping update the phonetic data for the #Unihan group of the #Unicode consortium. Glad to be part of the effort! The linked page will have the most recent updates to the phonetic data.
@riley @mcc
This is fascinating!
I've been studying #Czech, which shares a ton of #phonemes and #vocabulary with other #Slavic languages, but is written with a Latin-based character set (I say "Latin-based" because Czech uses an assortment of #diacritic marks as #pronunciation modifiers on an otherwise standard #Latin character set).
On several occasions, I've come across a #Russian or #Ukrainian word written in its native #Cyrillic script followed by a #phonetic pronunciation guide written in Latin characters, and consequently recognized the word as one that is shared with Czech. Those moments of recognition are just pure #linguistic glee.
