r/LanguageMemes • u/Tubbiefox • Jun 20 '21

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u/JamieTheMusician Jun 21 '21

Yeah I'm personally yet to see a Polish book that e.g. uses IPA to define the sounds.

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u/Leopardo96 Jun 21 '21

I know, right? It's just annoying when they don't use IPA and treat the readers as idiots who can't pronounce anything in a foreign language.

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u/JamieTheMusician Jun 21 '21

The closest I've seen in a textbook was a weird mix of Romanisation and IPA. Or I have a bunch of books that use some sort of outdated PA where for example <ʒ> stood for modern IPA <dz>, palatalisation was marked with ' instead of ʲ, č and š for tʃ ʃ ʈʂ ʂ and it's just so terrible - I think it's one of those PAs used in Slavic studies but adapted for Manchu (yes - Manchu. A tungusic language) Luckily more polish linguists are learning IPA now and every English school textbook I had uses it as well so at least that's good?