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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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:An alternative (if we don't want to use ascii ipa) would be to simply have it use <nowiki>{{ipa|beɪʒ}}</nowiki> and have a javascript that goes character-by-character adding the mouseovers. Such a script would be more lightweight, though not solving the issue of IPA being difficult to type. --[[User:Random832|Random832]]<sup>[[User talk:Random832|T]]</sup> 00:21, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
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::Were we to do this I'd suggest we use [[SAMPA]] (and maybe some English-orthography based respelling also).  SAMPA is sometimes found on Wikipedia: either a leftover from the pre-IPA-template days or because some editor was unaware of the new style or incapable or too busy or lazy to use IPA.  But as I mentioned above we needn't restrict ourselves to only one input.  We could, for example, have three similar templates, let's call them <nowiki>{{Respell-IPA}}, {{SAMPA-IPA}} and {{IPA-IPA}}</nowiki> for sake of arguement.  The first could convert from some English-orthography based respelling to IPA, the second from SAMPA to IPA and the third would just leave the IPA.  They'd all look and act the same on the page (i.e. IPA with mouseover tool-tips). [[User:Jimp|Jimp]] 03:45, 22 January 2007 (UTC)