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[da]

Wouldn't it be cool to have a Boggle set made with the characters in the International Phonetic Alphabet?

ɸʉʙɐɹ!

d and I were just considering all of the vowel sounds that could go between n and t in English. There's a lot of them.

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[da-lj.livejournal.com]

I just had too much fun with http://www.yorku.ca/earmstro/ipa/ .

Yes, I should be asleep.

[poeticalpanther.livejournal.com]

This would be a game I'd clean up at. Consequently, I think it simply must be made. :)

[thingo.livejournal.com]

The legal "words" would change a lot as you moved around the earth, and would be subject to debate among players in the same game. At least in Scrabble there are basically just two possible dictionaries. Still, it might be fun.

[poeticalpanther.livejournal.com]

I do understand that - I'm a linguist by profession, and use the IPA in my everyday work, hence my claim. :)

[thingo.livejournal.com]

OK, you would indeed wipe the floor with me. I am very good at plain old Boggle, but despite my interest in linguistics I can't read IPA. Maybe we could alternate phonetic and spelling.

By the way, I nominate you to supply appropriate IPA dice for Boggle. Then we'll figure out who wants to write the Boggle implementation. Then we make a Facebook app out of it. Actually, it could be genuinely useful for learning IPA...

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

I've been meaning to learn the IPA (just for kicks) for a while.

This would make a fun tool for that, along with these guys. There just ain't enough hours. :)

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

"Allright, crew; Aussie English only, tonight!"

"Aw, we played Aussie last week. I wanted Received!"

[madcaptenor.livejournal.com]

At least eleven words are pronounced nVt, where V is a vowel: gnat, net, knit, not, nut, newt, note, neat, night, Nate, naught.

Wow, that's a lot.

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

See?

All 'cause I was going to go retrieve George the ferocious attack bear with a net, and someone in the bed who was closer to sleep than I got confused why a nut would help.

[dpolicar]

Who's Annete?

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

Eh, naught.

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

Also, happy solar revolution placeholder commemorative day.

Or birthday, if you celebrate that.

[melted-snowball.livejournal.com]

And if you're pretentious like me, you might pronounce newt and Knute differently.

[madcaptenor.livejournal.com]

bVt also has a lot.

[melted-snowball.livejournal.com]

That one has typically been the one I've used in the past.

(See, I was going to make this post just now, but it appears it was made by someone else while I was asleep...)

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

...ɒ Muffin!

[chezmax]

*snort*

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

Hm, now I wonder if there's a symbol for that in IPA...

[chezmax]

No, not yet, but it's called a nasal ingressive voiceless velar trill, and there's a proposed symbol for it.

Tee hee.

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

Oh, my.

*double-dot wide-O*

(you'll have to use your imagination there, as I'm crushed, crushed, to discover there even lacks a unicode character for it.)

[dcseain.livejournal.com]

Ohh, that could be fun, esp seeing as vowels in my native dialect are a long way from US Standard.

[http://users.livejournal.com/merle_/]

Don't give them ideas. They might come up with Unicode Boggle.

"Oh, great, an interrobang. And I don't even know what language that symbol is from! Looks like another tie game with zero points all around."

[pyesetz]

That popup keyboard is rather limited.  Where are the rhotacized vowels?  I don't know about where you come from, but it is impossible to transcribe Bostonian English without rhotacized vowels.

ɚ ɝ o˞