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Re:Why Bother with What Three Words? by rtkwe on Thursday March 28, 2019 @10:29PM (#19518627)
It's clear in the article that the lists don't map so you can't even translate between them without going back to W3W and running it through their stuff.

> So, if I want to tell a French speaker where ///mile.crazy.shade is, I have to use ///embouchure.adjuger.saladier

> Loosely translated back as ///mouth.award.bowl an entirely different location!

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Re:Why Bother with What Three Words? by duskwuff on Friday March 29, 2019 @12:28AM (#19519155)
It's no great surprise that the words don't translate. But what I'm asking is it's possible to infer a word-to-word mapping along the lines of

    English   French
    -------   ------
       mile = embouchure
      crazy = adjuger
      shade = saladier
or if the mapping is weird enough that even that doesn't work.
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Re:Why Bother with What Three Words? by fredzel on Friday March 29, 2019 @04:28AM (#19519989)
Just checked that by changing last phrase in Polish, than changing language to English. It doesn't work:

"plomba.rewelacja.oczy" => "exclaim.mainland.engages"

"plomba.rewelacja.fasada" => "dare.lawn.sleepy"

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