Quoting Thomas Goirand (2013-06-29 18:23:14) > On 06/28/2013 06:07 PM, Tanguy Ortolo wrote: > > I forgot to mention the reason for these two suggestions. English is a > > rather bad candidate for use by non-native speakers, because it has a > > pronunciation that is not very deterministic, with letters that can have > > distinct pronunciation depending on the word. > > Yeah. Let's do it in Chinese. Intonations are so much more fun... > > There's about 552 basic sounds in Chinese, with 4 intonations each, > that makes it 2208 possibilities. So with very few Chinese words, we > can encode a lot of the bits of a PGP key. That would be so much more > efficient. :) Fun! :-) > Seriously, I do agree. Some of the words I read at > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biometric_word_list, I didn't even know > them. I'm not sure learning that Aardvark is an animal, or that Algol > is a star is helpful in every day life, and I don't think it's worth > forcing that knowledge on non-english natives, just for the sake of > exchanging PGP fingerprints. You need not learn semantics to articulate understandably. This reminds me related issue (or perhaps the same, I might simply have misunderstood your point above, Tomas): How well do the various wordlists take into account that some (pretty large) groups of non-native english speakers have difficulty distinguishing between some sounds clearly distinguishable for native english speakers - e.g. I recall some consonants including "t" sounding the same to a japanese ear. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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