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  • i don’t understand why most people on the internet don’t use IPA for conveying pronunciation

    while it is more complicated, and unless you are a phonology nerd, you have to look things up (including me), it is incredibly more concise

    it is, in fact, the only way to concisely convey any pronunciation (excluding single language focused phonetic notations)

    different english dialects have different pronunciation: e.g. fur can be /fɜː(ɹ)/, /fɜɹ/ and /fʌr/

    While this is not the case for your comment, others also use made-up words for conveying pronunciation. Ghoti is a perfect example why that is problematic.