Right, so poems or anything with regular structure would be much easier to find, even if they're original and unshared.

What about me just thinking of words "at random" though? There will be some reduction in entropy, from my limited vocabulary and preferences, but what actually makes those words easier to find?

Or, what if I use a low entropy result from a really unusual process? Are those in some way easy to find for someone with no knowledge of the process that was used?

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what actually makes them easier to find? How would someone actually go about finding them?

Yeah, right, it's gonna be knowable or connectable to you, then, I'd think. Like, if you take the 12 words that make grammatic/poetic sense, you drastically reduce the search space (= I, as attacker, can intuit that some people will make poetry of their mnemonics). Or if I know that Undisci is a Bitcoiner and he loves a certain number combo, it's trivial for me to guess that.

Whereas actual, safe addresses, are safeguarded by 

 having anything but raw chance to go on.

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> what actually makes them easier to find? How would someone actually go about finding them?

Yeah, right, it's gonna be knowable or connectable to you, then, I'd think. Like, if you take the 12 words that make grammatic/poetic sense, you drastically reduce the search space (= I, as attacker, can intuit that some people will make poetry of their mnemonics). Or if I know that Undisci is a Bitcoiner and he loves a certain number combo, it's trivial for me to guess that.

Whereas actual, safe addresses, are safeguarded by _not_ having anything but raw chance to go on. 

_How's that?_