Angloclony (was: Re: clothing terms)

From: "Adam Walker" <dreamertwo@...>
> It was fine with me.  I found it refreshing NOT to have to wrack my brain
> for those twisted SAMPA or, even worse, for Kirshenbaum symbols.  IPA I
> love, but the "web adaptations" leave me cold.
Certainly it may be easy to read, but a lot of the time it's not *very*
informative as to actual pronunciation.  (When they use lots of diphthongs
it's worse.)

The Druni examples aren't bad at all, but there are at least two
ambiguities:

    >Zhul (ZHOOL)
    >Ramgur (rahm-GOOR)

... which doesn't tell me whether "oo" is supposed to be /u/ in the first
and /U/ in the second (as the angloclony might lead to expect: <fool>,
<poor>), or only one of those vowels in both cases (as I expect is meant?).

And:

    >Genbon (gehn-BOHN)
    >Chatuzoteri (chah-too-zoh-TEH-ree)

.. which leaves me no clear idea of the pronunciation of Druni <o> at all.
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    *Muke!
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