Phonetic Alphabet?

[gothwalk]

What's the best way to go about learning the phonetic alphabet? I've just realised, trying to explain in text to a Canadian colleague, that trying to render a Northern Irish accent in the mundane alphabet is wholly impossible. The greeting that you'd write as "How's you?" gets mangled into "Hyee's yi-e?", and still doesn't convey either the sound or the fact that it sounds pleasant.

Comments

[hkim.livejournal.com]

Explain it using the word 'situation'.

Same way's I always demonstrate a Kiwi accent using the phrase 'fish and chips'.

[gothwalk.livejournal.com]

After the sound it just produced, I'm going to have to take my tongue out back and shoot it.