What is the reason we don’t use the international phonetic alphabet when writing things?

Question

What is the reason we don’t use the international phonetic alphabet when writing things?

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Answer 1

Pronunciations differ, even in the same language. Australians, Americans and the British all speak their own variant of English. (Mostly) uniform spelling avoids issues that phonetic writing experiences.

So much American poetry confused me when I was young because I thought ‘that doesn’t rhyme’. If all I had was the phonetic alphabet, I’d know it would rhyme but would have no idea what the words are.

And I guarantee half of what I say that’s legible English to another Australian would be goddamm indecipherable if all you knew was what was heard without seeing it written.