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PostSun Aug 18, 2019 9:12 am 
This is the dumbest thing since unsliced bread.

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PostSun Aug 18, 2019 9:26 am 
Seventy2002 wrote:
Tom wrote:
depends on whether any of the 3 words sound like other words
There are too many homonyms in the English language to recommend this for emergency use.
Seems like the design of the dictionary would take that into account. There are already phoneme catalogs used for text to speech mapping, so assigning homonyms to the same encoded value would be straightforward. Hopefully the design team took that into account.

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PostSun Aug 18, 2019 9:32 am 
neek wrote:
This is the dumbest thing since unsliced bread.
What's interesting is that Mongolia has adopted it as their street addressing system. They previously didn't have a workable system. I think the system is interesting, but solves location communication for western countries in only edge cases. E.g. when in an area with sketchy coverage where there is no data services, but a text can sometimes get through.

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