Why don't we just use the IPA as a standard alphabet

too many letters

>>73169885
More or less altered existing letters. For writing it's a non issue, typing would require a modifier or 6

ít Jz jùːnəvˈɚːsl bˈʌt nɒt JféktJv tuː kˈʌvɚ éJ sˈɚːtn lˈæŋgwJdʒ.

>>73169871
Too complicated to be mainstream and it would divide a lot of languages given different pronounciations sometimes between even two villages.

>>73170126
This. Even something as simple as the pin/pen merger could cause confusion between the southern and northern US.

>>73170126
It would have the inadvertent effect of uniting various dialects given there's only one way to pronounce IPA words

>>73170207
More of a thought exercise given accessibility to IPA across the globe. Practically speaking I don't even want to imagine how much of a shitfit southerners would throw over it; they're not the most open to change or rational beings

>>73170215
But people won't suddenly lose their accent or pronounciation just because there's a unified alphabet. There are highly phonemic alphabets like Finnish and Spanish, and there are still a shitload of different pronounciations. Declaring a standard for a pluricentral language (like English, Portuguese, Spanish) would just turn it into a linguistic shitfest too.
Also living languages aren't static, you'd have to adjust the spelling of a language every thirty years to keep it phonemic.

>>73170277
sounds like a well informed opinion backed by fact

>>73170455
>>73170607
I'm speaking hypothetically if everybody decided to, not seriously suggesting we implement it at the moment.

>>73170651
>>73170651
It wouldn't work for all the other reasons. Even if you try you won't lose your different pronounciation, and as I said languages aren't static.

>>73170067
> ejectives in English
How about no