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Also if I had to tell one of those over the telephone to my parents and my life depended on it I would choose the latter.

Why not adopt the crypto (as in coins) seed thing with random words? Those are much more human readable, imo than "bubu bibi baba".

Because my parents do not speak English and these solutions have no localizaction usually. Bubu baba may be sound stupid, but I am confident a German parent or an Italian friend would understand it better than an assortment of complicated English words they don't know the meaning of and where the writing is unclear.

Additionally there is an effective mnemonic technique thst turns text into a melody that is sung (hence the name probably). This works better with "baba bubo kali meta" than with "atrocious limestone".

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