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So people in Mongolia will use English words for addresses? The whole "easy to remember" is completely lost when it's a foreign language. Imagine if America sw

So people in Mongolia will use English words for addresses? The whole "easy to remember" is completely lost when it's a foreign language. Imagine if America switched to three Chinese characters for an "easy to remember" address system. In China numbers are often used inside of roman character email addresses, or domains, because roman characters are only convenient for westerners, much less English words. See 1688.com (alibaba.com), or use of QQ numbers for email addresses.

linkregister 10y ago
Thankfully now there is the IDN extension to DNS to use punycode to represent other character sets. I agree with your original point that it is strange that the Mongol Post would want to use English words for addressing. Edit: they support other languages; I assume they would add Mongolian to the list.
thaumasiotes 10y ago
> Imagine if America switched to three Chinese characters for an "easy to remember" address system. This sounds pretty unlikely even for China, since it's almost impossible to unambiguously name any particular character. When speaking, you would generally identify a specific character using a four-syllable phrase like 安静的静 (literally "the jìng of ānjìng [quiet]"). Why can't you just say jìng? Well, here are some other characters with the same pronunciation: 竟境镜敬竞净径靖劲痉胫婧獍靓 There are a few characters with unique pronunciations, like 给 or 谁, but those are very much not the norm. The chinese version of what3words would be overwhelmingly likely to use words, not characters.