You get something like: dʒ so what “dee-three?” No, it’s “juh” or: ɔː Well I know that’s not “sea-colon” or “frowny face” or I wouldn’t be making this thread. So what is it? Apparently it’s “or” … so I was ironically right the first time by pure coincidence. Who comes up with these things, or what base language are they using?
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This is the IPA International Phonetic Alphabet.
It is a way to write down how things are pronounced.
If you just write things down in normal Latin letters like is normally down for English, you get the problem that sometimes letters mean different sounds and the same sounds can be written with different letters.
Each letter in the IPA stands for exactly one sound. Since there are more sounds that humans make than there are letters in alphabets they had to get creative and added a bunch of other characters to mean things.
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