Thread:Maczkopeti/@comment-27345308-20180113232224/@comment-5097122-20180114142401

1. I say we shouldn't reinvent the wheel. The IPA and respelling systems have been around on Wikipedia for more than 10 years and if there were any major problems with it, they would've been addressed by now. Copying it is not necessarily bad.

2. Yeah, Truespel is a not a good respelling system. It leaves a lot of ambiguity by not marking stress and syllabification (some are just plain absurd), and it only covers US English, while Wikipedia covers a larger variety of English dialects. Also, PhoTransEdit only covers UK English. It's better to search words from more mainstream dictionaries (both US and UK) and convert them to IPA, and from that to WP respelling if appropriate.

While it's true that Toby's own pronunciations are not official per se, but it's the closest we have to official pronunciations. As I said before, some names are open to multiple interpretations, so we shouldn't stick to just one for the pronunciation in those cases. I will try my best to explain pronunciation changes/removals in the future.

In some cases the Japanese names give good indication of the English pronunciation, like for Napstablook, Chara and Loox. Speaking of which, we should consider adding the Japanese names and their romanizations to the openings of articles.