Today I decided to change one of my mnemonics. Then later I noticed a few people had chosen my mnemonic previously. Do they get my changed mnemonic? I decided to change the mnemonic back but couldnt remember exactly what it was, so I went with the best I could remember.

Perhaps all this is not ideal. Perhaps when mnemonics are chosen by a certain number of people they should start to lead their own life and become independent of the original creator.

It's okay, I think. Most mnemonics changes are just to improve formatting or fix typos or some such. There will be a few cases where the original author changes her mnemonic even though it's good (people are using it) to something else, but I'm hoping it's rare enough to not be a big deal. The system is a lot easier to code this way.