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[TaiwanPofLee]

NOT A TEACHER

I’m sorry if this sounds like unsolicited advice, but I think you need to refine your “system” before you teach it to your students because using the same symbol to represent two completely different phonemes (/w/ and /w/) is a definite no-no in phonemic transcription.

Thank you for your advice, N Senbei. I did use a different symbol for [w] (ə) before. (You can surely guess it.)

By the way, I do not see an IPA symbol for my symbol [e] in your wonderful decipherment (#18). Why is it?

 

[N Senbei]

Thank you for your advice, N Senbei. I did use a different symbol for [w] (ə) before. (You can surely guess it.)

Then you should use that symbol again.

By the way, I do not see an IPA symbol for my symbol [e] in your wonderful decipherment (#18). Why is it?

Because /e/ is acceptable in IPA transcription too.

 

[Tdol]

All my symbols can easily be typed out on the computer.

That's a useful point.

There are IPA typewriters available like www.e-lang.co.uk/mackichan/call/pron/type.html, but simply flicking between pages and pasting bits in can be a pain and will put many off.