Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP0039 Mnemonic code for generating deterministic keys

[slush <slush@centrum.cz>]

We're open to changes in the wordlist. We'll accept pull request
replacing potentially offensive words by another more neutral, which
also fits all other requirements.

Putting the wordlist together is really hard job and we spent few
sleepless nights on that. By the way, words "murder, black, people"
are contained also in Electrum wordlist and nobody complained yet :-).

slush

On 9/11/13, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 2:03 PM, Matthew Mitchell
> <matthewmitchell@godofgod.co.uk> wrote:
>> Well let's hope something like "murder black people", "stupid asian
>> person" or "whip african slave" doesn't come up. :-) Maybe it would have
>> been better without the aggressive words?
>
> Ouch.
>
> This sounds like something that $20 of mechanical turk time could help
> out with a lot.  Put up the 2048 words and ask people to rate them for
> potential offensiveness and threatening. :)
>
> Nouns often make for fairly neutral words, though careful for place
> names which have had political complications. E.g. gdansk vs danzig.
>