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>>I've often caught myself saying that in a language there's no logic, only history. And yet that same language is our tool of expressing logic... makes one think there's something flawed here.
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>Let's give Esperanto a trial.

The "let's hang them and give them a fair trial" trial? :)
I think that's what happened.

>We can start with standardized addresses < s>

Funny, though, the only standard thing I've noticed about addresses across the world is that they're backwards: the most specific thing first, then going for the wider. Just like most of the date formats are: only the ANSI (where A stands for "American"), Japanese and Hungarian dates go yyyy-mm-dd; any other format goes with smaller stuff first... which is an indexing nightmare.

If a standardized address would be country-place/zip-street-nr-person, they'd at least sort fine.