User talk:Lhynard/Projects/Say What

Phonetic Convention
This is an awesome project, especially for a non-native English speaker like myself. I'd like to contribute to it in a more systematic way, but then I've noticed that there are some entries that don't use the same conventions as others, or the ones established in the Dragon article.

For example, the sound /æ/ is denoted as '@' in the Dragon article, but is instead expressed in the corresponding IPA notation throughout the wiki. That is not the case with the vowel sounds /oʊ/ and /ɔ/, represented in the article as 'o' and '0', respectively, but displayed here with no distinction. The sounds /ə/ and /ʌ/ are indistinctly represented as 'u' both in the article and on the wiki, etc.

Moreover, there is no apparent convention in the representation when the phonetic description comes from different sources. For example, p. 4 of Tomb of Annihilation has a phonetic guide to pronounce the names of many NPCs in the adventure and monster names throughout the book, but uses a different convention when displaying them than that of the Dragon article. And even within the wiki there are examples of different notation, such as stress syllables emphasized with boldface or all-caps (I don't recall seeing the standard IPA symbol /ˈ / anywhere).

I'm not advocating for any particular convention (although my preference does lean towards something closer to IPA), but maybe it would be beneficial if we had something of a policy when adding pronunciations. Any thoughts? &mdash; Sirwhiteout (talk) 18:58, May 1, 2018 (UTC)