Corey Sheldon:
Ryan, Jonny,
"12 words" != generation seed
My understanding is that all private/public keys are based on the
generation seed. For Electrum is consists of 12 random words from a list
of 2048 words.
http://docs.electrum.org/en/latest/faq.html#what-is-the-seed
So my intention when I wrote the draft was that "12 words" == generation
seed.
Jonny