On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 11:28 PM, Max <[email protected]> wrote:

> Additionally it is a mind booggling case of anglocentrism and neo
> colonialism to put english words all over parts of the world where
> people have different scripts and have no idea what those words mean and
> how they are pronounced. how is this better then a local addressing
> scheme or a geocoordinate if you have to remember the latin letters of
> the three 'words' because you don't know their meaning?
>
>
>From their website: http://what3words.com/about/
"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."
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