I’ve always been afraid to even click on that thing, it looks like arcane academic patois that isn’t meant for mere mortals. But the tooltips make it very accessible.
The tooltips only appear to work on English words, however.
gas ingifno no no no no no no
Yiff
gif is pronounced like the ‘g’ in ‘gigantic’
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Cute. Just like you OP.
OP is BOOBS upside down.
Ayo Cute boobs. What is there to not love.
No u (too)
No U2?
Apple hated that.
Wikipedia is flirting with you btw.
The IPA is fantastically interesting.
I don’t agree with people who think it should replace our standard alphabets and syllabarries (it is jarring, at least in my opinion, to essentially read other people’s accents from written text when they don’t match your own), but it can be pretty useful in some situations… where you’re actually studying accents, or the most common ways things are said in other languages.
I tried to take a linguistics class in college and I just couldn’t internalize these characters. It was very difficult for me and I respect people who can.
“arcane academic patois” is peak. you win the internet today.
That’s actually pretty cool. I did not know that. Thanks for sharing.
I should really learn the pronunciation characters. The example of cute is helpful though!
What’s it gonna take for them to just PLEASE give me the whole thing in one go? 😭
they do, it’s just written down. IPA isn’t that hard to learn.
Related to the Wikipedia article, my childhood was in the early 2000s so to me skeumorphism, specially in software, feels very nostalgic and warm.
I clicked on it once and it made a baby appear and the baby looked at me.
