Theory: people who know IPA are the vegans of the linguist community
(as a vegan I’m totally allowed to do this)
“I try to use IPA for French on Mondays. It’s not much, but every bit helps.”
“one time I tried learning IPA and I thought I was going to die”
“I could never give up a makeshift transcription system based in my own personal assumptions about what sounds are”
“I really admire people who can use IPA consistently.”
“idc if u know ipa just don’t shove it in my face all the time smh”
"it’s just more convenient to write however I want”
“I know learning IPA is probably the best for all of us, but it just seems kind of hard”
“i know there’s websites that try to make it easy, but I’d rather use shitty approximations than be mildly inconvenienced”
“using ipa is a personal choice”
“humans have evolved to use our own languages to transcribe other languages we don’t need another alphabet”
“because of my teeth, i can’t even produce those sounds accurately anyway, so there’s no point if it can’t do it 100%”
“IPA is unnatural”
“I read all of these symbols and there’s so much contradictory information”
“IPA is a fad”
“I’m just trying to live my life and help the linguistic community with their vocalic dissonance”
“where do you get your diphthongs tho”
collab with @re-verlan
this is me! lolol
