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    Users can look up these three-word locations,
    which have been translated into Mongolian,
    for free on the What3Words website or app.
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What3words#Design_principles


And surely the mongolian translation has been carefuly vetted like the original english one ... no offensive phrases in mongolian?


Carefully vetted? I don't have the time right now but there are countless weird, insulting, offensive phrases possible with this proprietary abomination.


Which have been vetted in their propietary algorithm, according to the wikipedia page. Dont know how well it works, though.


Unless they went back and manually deleted words after their second round of hype last year, they are still in. Their wikipedia page surely has been largely written by them themselves.


The words were literally translated? That makes no sense... the meaning of the words is not important.


No, they don't seem to have been literally translated. My Swedish address is not the translation of my English address.

Which is kind of interesting in its own right, since you can then refer to the same physical location in different ways depending on which language you use.

This calls for some kind of geographic cross-lingual poetry.


If meaning of words is not important, I say let's default to Euskera.


What's easier for you to remember -

    ample.estate.racing 
or

    хангалттай.хөрөнгийн.уралдааны


The fact that you are even asking that is prove of the level of arrogance that the anglospeaking part of the world has reached.


I think you've misunderstood the point being made by GP.

(that is, they are arguing that most people will have an easier time remembering words from their native language)


Sorry, you misunderstand me.

If you read eg cyrillic you're going to find it very much easier to read and remember cyrillic words. Thus, presenting cyrillic to those people benefits them. That's why translating from English to local languages is a good thing.


Sorry, I indeed misunderstood you!


It does if you're a visitor trying to find an address in the local language.




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