You are correct, it's a horrible implementation of an otherwise good idea. Personally I want a public domain list of 2^k distinct words of distinct and unambig

You are correct, it's a horrible implementation of an otherwise good idea. Personally I want a public domain list of 2^k distinct words of distinct and unambiguous enough meanings, that are then translated to many other languages and evaluated for the same criteria (in reality, such system will be required to begin with as many languages as possible). My best guess is that k=10 is possible with a lot of efforts.