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Template talk:Ʒ
This is an example of my '''IPA Quickhelp Templates''' idea for templates to use rollover "status text" to make IPA more comprehensible for beginners. The idea is that each letter is a link. When the user rolls over the link, they should get a short (under 15-word) jargon-free text explaining how to pronounce that phoneme. This links to a redirect which links to the jargon-titled article about that sound.

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::::How about <span title="ʒ as in beige=beɪʒ" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted">ʒ</span> - <nowiki><span title="ʒ as in beige=beɪʒ" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted">ʒ</span></nowiki> - adding a class and maybe doing the underlining with a monobook rule would probably be better eventually --[[User:Random832|Random832]]<sup>[[User talk:Random832|T]]</sup> 10:20, 21 January 2007 (UTC)


:::::I don't think underlines (dotted or otherwise) under IPA symbols are a good idea.  They'd be likely to interfere with the symbols. Note that some IPA diacritics go under the symbol (e.g. the one for syllabic consonants).  [[User:Jimp|Jimp]] 16:13, 21 January 2007 (UTC)⏎
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==Relationship to IPA template?==
If this were adopted, how should it relate to the IPA template? Should it include, be included in, or neither? I would be in favor of using functions to include it in the IPA template for individual letters. The IPA template would check whether a single template existed the text it was given as a parameter. If such a template existed, it would use it rather than the plain text. (We could either write complicated code into template:IPA to check for [bracketed] case, or we co(contracted; show full)ke "the scraping sound sometimes heard in 'yeccchhhh!!'; or, hold a 'k' with a lot of tension and don't let go, and then gradually release the tension until the air starts to get through and you hear a scraping sound." these descriptions should be succinct but as long as necessary, and not artificially limited; for really unusual sounds, e.g. [[voiced pharyngeal fricative]], you might need quite a lot of instructions.

[[User:Benwing|Benwing]] 10:29, 21 January 2007 (UTC)