Re: Literary phonetic alphabet

On Sep 24, 2:06 pm, António Marques <m...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Iain wrote:
On Sep 23, 4:13 pm, "Peter T. Daniels"<gramma...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Much more common are ad hoc haphazard attempts at imitating
pronunciations using makeshift approximations in whichever language's
spelling system happens to be familiar.

I'm seeking a non-makeshift version of the above.

Would you admit some diacritics?

Yes.

Would you admit a letter schwa?

Maybe.

I started thinking about this when I listened to an American's
attempts at reading Burns.

~Iain
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