Not questioning your credentials! It's just that, for all I know, all the really cool linguists just laugh haughtily when IPA is mentioned. It's been years since I learned it, and even then it was in an anthropology class. It could be that proper modern linguistics is done entirely using little tick marks on the back of cocktail napkins.

So my question for you (well, actually, I have another one, but it's dependent on a) me figuring out how to put IPA into a fic and b) finishing the fic: is there an IPA font/program/applet for download or web use somewhere, like there's formula makers that you can download? Because, seriously, I've got no chance of making those marks in a drawing program; I can't even recognizably produce my own name in those things.

Huh. And now I'm wondering why Daniel Jackson doesn't keep his field journals in IPA. Wouldn't that make more sense?