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I mean, the philosophy behind correcthorsebatterystaple is good. I used that method for master passwords to password managers and it really does work well to help you remember a long complex password that can't be guessed easily.
But some people might have been missing the point of that xkcd using correcthorsebatterystaple itself.
It's okay. The thing is when running an attack are you going to permutate through every combination of characters, or are you going to use words from a dictionary first? correcthorsebatterystaple (not a dictionary word) is better than antidisestablishmentarianism (a dictionary word) but in a realistic attack concatenating dictionary words is going to be the next step.
Because of the number of potential words in the dictionary, it's still fairly secure. I would recommend 5 or 6 words though