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Curse phrases and insults in local dialects work quite well in this regard, at least for now.

In our case, they are sufficiently different from any major language to not be mere permutations of known words. Can't extract/derive regional insults in Eastphalian from any dictionary.

Diceware works as well, if you only need to remember 2-3 passphrases (for your Password Safe or whatever).

don't most passwords also have a character cap as well? 6-16 I usually run into...

You really want special characters in it if you want to make it difficult to break.

https://xkcd.com/936/

The system we have a work can take passwords up to 128 characters, I joked during the meeting that I was going to use all 128 characters.

Typical "special characters" are boring, and long passphrases are tiresome.

For maximum fun and security, try a passphrase that mixes vocabulary, grammar, character sets, and input methods from multiple languages. It helps if you learn how to touch type in at least one of the other languages.

For example: лщкуhaぺれけるちゃてるьгяглф死

This is a very simple, easy to remember phrase that can be entered manually if necessary in under 10 seconds. I suspect it would be rather resistant to most brute force attacks. (If you're able to make sense of this example passphrase, congratulations!)

Of course, some password storage systems may not be willing or able to accept this sort of creativity, but such is life.

@00Scud00, it's annoying because most sites don't tell you what the max size is when you make a password, but I usually try a onepassword-generated one that's huge, and see how much the password-maker complains.

128, though. I suppose I could concatenate some more stuff to it.