From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from sog-mx-3.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com ([172.29.43.193] helo=mx.sourceforge.net) by sfs-ml-2.v29.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1VJWj0-0006wC-Dc for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Tue, 10 Sep 2013 22:47:58 +0000 X-ACL-Warn: Received: from mail-vb0-f47.google.com ([209.85.212.47]) by sog-mx-3.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtps (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (Exim 4.76) id 1VJWiz-0000Px-F8 for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Tue, 10 Sep 2013 22:47:58 +0000 Received: by mail-vb0-f47.google.com with SMTP id h10so5519264vbh.34 for ; Tue, 10 Sep 2013 15:47:51 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=oLISi3o0AbzpJ+S9PJllBVMlGSAaqzn7FMDtoFoPSxA=; b=PVtOLvVyrgTY9ahtlZjGufjiUW+veMOCI80gmg9s9ummeZMs+1UUk5f3jcfZe2YiC4 rXWZtv9CIRz61Ujuf5nlhIeuAHi4nxy7Ld+8LctUBiy+fHUeYCLAXzEQLhYp/bsmYTmZ eUd1oQnhOMFNbZ0fl9L1gGLfRNFj3cfTDJ6HgbRYv0u6ib+P5xAMfxZdFjmSm2/jtEkT ae2OQ66G+nVGkNncKnIJmCV75jn6Zag6zStjk7p7vGTkr8Um4aKtfmmmKgUJR3f1+Kl+ z900Tui29egcLgZQRopRKDFtcWw0Pv5XvVwr+NPNBvn1whUQr+ecazkQBF4Tq2FsUco3 XoVQ== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQlqVx6Ji6WuTToB/iNakquklWGx1fli00mqYra/kQ0BeI9GtbExVQmIm4YebrcRqxgB4rWN MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.220.181.136 with SMTP id by8mr25434106vcb.11.1378853271648; Tue, 10 Sep 2013 15:47:51 -0700 (PDT) Sender: marek@palatinus.cz Received: by 10.58.235.136 with HTTP; Tue, 10 Sep 2013 15:47:51 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <796AC330-56EF-43D2-9935-5409824A4F33@godofgod.co.uk> <0F445FFE-FA1A-4A64-9A28-C734E744B5F7@godofgod.co.uk> Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 00:47:51 +0200 X-Google-Sender-Auth: OtB5_Wd2LzFWjjKolU5pcPPPZF4 Message-ID: From: slush To: Gregory Maxwell Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) X-Spam-Report: Spam Filtering performed by mx.sourceforge.net. See http://spamassassin.org/tag/ for more details. 0.0 FREEMAIL_FROM Sender email is commonly abused enduser mail provider (slush[at]centrum.cz) X-Headers-End: 1VJWiz-0000Px-F8 Cc: Bitcoin Dev Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP0039 Mnemonic code for generating deterministic keys X-BeenThere: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 22:47:58 -0000 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 wrote: > On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 2:03 PM, Matthew Mitchell > 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. >