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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!"