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<oerjan> addquote <Taneb> English is a lie, words lack intrinsic meaning <int-e> fortunately people don\'t operate for long in a vacuum so there\'ll always be context
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date Thu, 07 Dec 2017 10:21:07 +0000
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The IPA (short for International Phonetic Abjad) is an international standard encoding all non-vowel sounds in all spoken languages, and is used to indicate the pronunciation of words. It is incredibly useful, unless you need to pronounce a word.