<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 11:29 PM, Jake Wasserman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jwasserman@gmail.com" target="_blank">jwasserman@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><span class="">On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 11:28 PM, Max <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:abonnements@revolwear.com" target="_blank">abonnements@revolwear.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></span><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">Additionally it is a mind booggling case of anglocentrism and neo<br>
colonialism to put english words all over parts of the world where<br>
people have different scripts and have no idea what those words mean and<br>
how they are pronounced. how is this better then a local addressing<br>
scheme or a geocoordinate if you have to remember the latin letters of<br>
the three 'words' because you don't know their meaning?<br>
<span><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>From their website: <a href="http://what3words.com/about/" target="_blank">http://what3words.com/about/</a></div><div>"We have rolled out our 3 word address system in 9 languages: English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Swahili, Russian, German, Turkish & Swedish. We are adding to those every month and are currently working on Italian, Greek, Arabic and more."</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>So, it's less "what3words" and more like "what27words". Starts making datum issues look easy by contrast... </div></div></div></div>