User talk:110.70.56.247

Hello, 110.70.56.247! Welcome to Wikivoyage.

To help get you started contributing, we've created a tips for new contributors page, full of helpful links about policies and guidelines and style, as well as some important information on copyleft and basic stuff like how to edit a page. If you need help, check out Wikivoyage:Help, or post a message in the travellers' pub.

By the way, have you considered creating an account here? While you can absolutely keep contributing as an anonymous user, it promises a bunch of benefits, and no obligations.

Thanks a lot for adding content to a couple of phrasebooks, but please use pseudo-transliterations instead of, or at least in addition to, IPA symbols. This site is neither directed toward linguists nor an encyclopedia, and you can't expect the average traveler to understand IPA symbols. Look at other well-developed phrasebooks for some examples of how we've handled things. If you look at Phrasebooks, you can see a list of all existing phrasebooks that shows their statuses. Look at the one Star phrasebook and some Guide-level phrasebooks. They won't be perfect, but you'll see the kind of format that we've been using.

Thanks!

All the best,

Ikan Kekek (talk) 07:11, 25 January 2020 (UTC)

Come on, now! Don't use obscure, unhelpful examples like this! We don't even use the spelling "Naxçıvan" on this site; it's Nakhchivan, but who the hell other than geography buffs and area residents knows what or where that is, let alone how to pronounce it? "Like ch in loch" is more like it. Please, think of our readers as English-speakers trying to learn enough words for a stay of a couple of weeks somewhere, not linguists, not polyglots, not geography buffs, not IPA readers - keep things simple! I started the Talk:Tibetan phrasebook#Unhelpful pronunciation examples thread. I invite you to participate if you like. Ikan Kekek (talk) 06:46, 26 January 2020 (UTC)