On 2/5/14 5:35 PM, Trevor Perrin wrote: > But it would be interesting to see what a better wordlist looks like.
Incidentally (and diving into the geek deep end), you might look at the list of "gismu"[1] created for the synthetic language Lojban. It was created (back in the 70s, with only minimal computer assistance) to meet the criteria of maximal phonetic distance between words, and semantic overlap with existing languages (weighted by number of speakers). So you wind up with some words that actually sound kinda like words you already know, but are still reliably distinguished from each other. All are 5 letters long. http://www.lojban.org/publications/wordlists/gismu.txt (pipe into "| cut -c2-6|grep -v ' '" to get just the main words.. did I mention the 70s already? :-) There are 1342 words on the list (that text file includes some non-gismu too), so you'd need one word per ten bits. cheers, -Brian [1]: pronounced "geese-mu", these are root words, that get combined to express more complex concepts _______________________________________________ Messaging mailing list [email protected] https://moderncrypto.org/mailman/listinfo/messaging
