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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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:::::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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::::::The reason for my suggestion was, dotted underline [accomplished with such a border] is what is used in mozilla for acronyms and abbreviations with mouseover text. What about a background? <span title="ʒ as in beige=beɪʒ" style="background: silver">ʒ</span>--[[User:Random832|Random832]]<sup>[[User talk:Random832|T]]</sup> 00:07, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

==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 (contracted; show full)

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

:Note that my suggestion above was not to have only one template per phoneme.  I had in mind using a template zh in addition to this one. [[User:Jimp|Jimp]] 16:17, 21 January 2007 (UTC)