On 11/15/2016 05:58 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:

On Tue, 2016-11-15 at 17:18 -0500, Przemek Klosowski wrote:

As an alternative, I wrote a program that takes the distribution of 
trigrams from an English dictionary, and statistically generates a 
Markov chain of such overlapping trigrams that look almost entirely 
unlike English words but often are strangely pronounceable, for instance:

umirckbysag mpspiarefor doptinenchc lymdeotmicn gclyowdhoki

I, er, don't find any of those naturally pronounceable at all.

Well, I see your point, but we're competing here with qljkvwqrx, lkdsfhkrw, or ad5cb9c940. Remember that the point is to come up with something that could be easily remembered. I would argue that they're not much worse than

Acthrel Iprivask Strensiq  Eltrombopag Ondansetron VinCRIStine  Arixtra Arzerra Ertaczo

which are actually from a list of registered drug names that the doctors are supposed to remember. Maybe someone could come up with a suggestion for a better algo---adding just few vowels would fix them  up significantly:

umirckobysag mopsopiarefor doptinenchoc lymdeotemicyn goclywodhoki

BTW, when I looked at the list of drug names I was impressed with the linguistic inventiveness of whoever comes up with this stuff; most of them not only could plausibly be pronounced, but also sounded vaguely 'medical'.