As a New Zealander, the PGP list is unfriendly because there are plenty of words that are hard to spell, or are too US centric.
dogsled (contains silent d, and sleigh might be a British spelling)
Galveston (I've never heard of the place)
Geiger (easy to type i before e - unobvious)
Wichita (I would have guessed the spelling began with which or witch)
And why did the designers not make the words have some connection to the numbers e.g. there are 12 even and 12 odd words beginning with E - add 16 more E words and you could use E words for E0 to EF. Redundant encoding like that helps humans (and would help when scanning for errors or matches too)
I imagine it is even harder for ESOL people from other countries! I am sure the UI has completion to help - but I wouldn't recommend using that list for anything except a pure US audience.
I have been to Galveston and I can assure you that you have not missed anything. There is no good reason to visit or know anything about it.
Making a word list that could work well for speakers different English dialects and for speakers of English as a second language sounds really hard. Has such a list as been made?
Probably it is too hard so we will continue to ignore the problem.
It should be discussed like this! It's clear that the w3w people didn't even do the bare minimum here!
The thing is, once you agree that some words are subpar or need translations, you can do a 1-to-1 mapping.
The problem with What3Words is that supporting the original word set will always be a pain even if they release a v2 word set with a 1-to-1 mapping (I believe they've already released versions for other languages?)
re: Geiger- parsing it could trivially accept misspellings of words
As a New Zealander, the PGP list is unfriendly because there are plenty of words that are hard to spell, or are too US centric.
dogsled (contains silent d, and sleigh might be a British spelling)
Galveston (I've never heard of the place)
Geiger (easy to type i before e - unobvious)
Wichita (I would have guessed the spelling began with which or witch)
And why did the designers not make the words have some connection to the numbers e.g. there are 12 even and 12 odd words beginning with E - add 16 more E words and you could use E words for E0 to EF. Redundant encoding like that helps humans (and would help when scanning for errors or matches too)
I imagine it is even harder for ESOL people from other countries! I am sure the UI has completion to help - but I wouldn't recommend using that list for anything except a pure US audience.