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

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

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Because the IPA is wastefully large for any individual language, unnecessarily complex for ordinary usage, and divorced from the social context that languages grow out of, while giving no everyday-usable benefits.

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