Re: Not phonetic but ___???

Gary Shannon wrote:
> I'm looking for a term to describe a linguistic
> concept having to do with pronunciation.  This is kind
> of difficult to explain, so bear ith me while I try to
> make my question understandable.
>
> A phonetic alphabet is meant to describe what a
> particular sound actually sounds like.  Thus a word
> can be transcribed in different ways to represent the
> different manners in which it is pronounced in various
> dialects or with various foreign accents.  As a
> result, someone transcribing their own speech into
> some phonetic alphabet could possily transcribe that
> word differently from someone else who spoke with a
> different dialect or accent.  But what I'm looking for
> is a variation on a phonetic alphabet that it
> independant of dialect or accent so that even if two
> people spoke with different dialects or accents they
> would still transcribe the word in the same way.
You're talking about phonemes, I think. It'd be a phonemic alphabet.