diff --git a/documents/evaluation/active_teaching_corpus_review.md b/documents/evaluation/active_teaching_corpus_review.md index 7440c93b..3d14753f 100644 --- a/documents/evaluation/active_teaching_corpus_review.md +++ b/documents/evaluation/active_teaching_corpus_review.md @@ -190,6 +190,37 @@ All sixteen files under `manual/part5_complex/` are reviewed and revised. The pa The completed base and function vocabulary covers every Part V construction, and no optional module word is used. The pass opens no lexical decision. It repairs two dependencies outside the manual: the headless-relative example in `documents/grammar/complementizer_reference.md` now omits its head, and the `lila` lexicon entry enforces the same modifier-first order as every other dependent clause. +## Part VI: Mastery + +All twenty files under `manual/part6_mastery/` are reviewed. Eighteen needed revision; the source-boundary and cross-language naming chapters already matched canon and remain unchanged. The pass brings social register, literary method, daily practice, and exact source handling into line with the completed lexicon without adding a root. + +| File | State | Finding and disposition | +|---|---|---| +| `ch21_social_context/01_the_vocative_kona.md` | Revised | `kona` now marks direct address without promising care or ceremony. Physical motion uses allative `kau`, while the extra-clausal vocative keeps its established structure. | +| `ch21_social_context/02_politeness_pi.md` | Revised | `pi` marks courtesy without changing a directive into consent or an ethical act. The lesson keeps only documented Slot 0 combinations and leaves authority and safe refusal to the relationship. | +| `ch21_social_context/03_the_honorific_system.md` | Revised | `sa`, `ni`, and `le` retain their distinct relationship claims. Rank-neutral grammar no longer pretends that social rank, demands, or unequal power disappear with it. | +| `ch21_social_context/04_register_and_formality.md` | Revised | Formal fullness now concerns recoverable subjects, referents, source marking, and address. Required frames retain their closers regardless of register, classifiers never certify respect, and tempo remains socially chosen. | +| `ch21_social_context/05_when_to_use_what.md` | Revised | Direct `kia` replaces the obsolete use of `mia thia lothea` as an ordinary greeting. Requests keep question and directive force separate, `ho` loses its false role as an uncertainty softener, and consolation remains an optative rather than a promise. | +| `ch22_transmutation/01_introduction.md` | Revised | Translation and transmutation now meet the current meanings of `womu` and `kuri`. Editorial change is owned by the transmuter instead of being credited to grammar. | +| `ch22_transmutation/02_the_process.md` | Revised | The method tests direct words, registered compounds, transparent composition, and coinage without making composition a failure or a new root a prize. Complex grammar remains available, the Five Pillars guide judgement rather than automate it, and direct `whemura` replaces the old sleep-story workaround. | +| `ch22_transmutation/03_case_study_anger.md` | Revised | Heart-fire remains the registered anger expression without being treated as a guaranteed process. The case study now admits that it preserves an accusation, changes anger's aim, and introduces a request not found in the source. | +| `ch22_transmutation/04_case_study_news.md` | Revised | Exact in-range counts stay in Phi, reportative `ti` keeps its true scope, and allative `kau` carries movement to safety. The passive preserves an unnamed repairer; an adjacent record keeps the decimals, currency figure, and wording. | +| `ch22_transmutation/05_case_study_poetry.md` | Revised | Base `tuleno`, `tupi`, and `shonuwa` restore the source's animal, action, and final acoustic image. The older creature, arrival, and voice version remains beside that close rendering as a deliberate transmutation, and the corrected form count gives `serao melothe` six syllables. | +| `ch22_transmutation/06_practice.md` | Revised | Registered `phelu pula` now begins the jealousy exercise, which still tests whether possession fits the particular source. News and poetry preserve source-bound material, compare translation with transmutation, and record lexical questions instead of rewarding change for its own sake. | +| `ch23_living_in_phi/01_daily_practice.md` | Revised | Natural points in the day replace clock-timed practice quotas. Direct `norawhi` (dusk) removes the misuse of registered west expression `sileta lumae`, and recurring gaps receive the same module, composition, source, or coinage test as the rest of the project. | +| `ch23_living_in_phi/02_journaling.md` | Revised | Journaling is offered as a practical writing setting rather than Phi's natural or private home. The three-line form keeps witness, feeling, and wish distinct without claiming that the language filters out self-accusation or counting. | +| `ch23_living_in_phi/03_meditation.md` | Revised | Meditation keeps Phi's Buddhist sources explicit. Slot 1 particles now describe imagined Phi claims rather than diagnose memories, plans, or worries. The obsolete pamphlet reference and clock duration give way to the current Metta Sutta path under `texts/`. | +| `ch23_living_in_phi/04_community.md` | Revised | Suggested exchanges no longer masquerade as observed community practice. Base `wesoma` remains distinct from optional Commons `kowela`, which receives the base alternative `sila lona`; shared use keeps one public lexicon without inventing an audience. | +| `ch23_living_in_phi/05_the_ongoing_journey.md` | Revised | Fluency now allows ordinary mistakes and leaves mindfulness to the speaker. The chapter removes its stale lexicon count, compares composition with coinage freely, and restores modifier-first order by placing `moli` before `thole`. | +| `ch24_source_material/01_where_source_material_lives.md` | Reviewed and preserved | The chapter already keeps foreign wording and exact artifacts outside Phi syntax, preserves writing-mode parity, and gives each recurring concept, onym, source record, and Phi quotation its current home. | +| `ch24_source_material/02_names_across_languages.md` | Reviewed and preserved | Two-, three-, and four-syllable onyms, bearer or naming-community acceptance, and the boundary around multi-token or source-script names all remain canonical. | +| `ch24_source_material/03_exact_records_and_technical_material.md` | Revised | Exact notation stays with its source artifact while base `themio` describes reflection on a measurement. The prose now invites stable vocabulary where discussion needs it without importing an optional governance review term. | +| `ch24_source_material/04_translation_and_responsibility.md` | Revised | Source preservation, translation, and analysis remain separate acts. The closing replaces a denial list with the practical reason to label a translation and retain exact source form. | + +### Lexical and canonical result + +The completed base and function vocabulary covers Part VI. One optional Commons word, `kowela`, appears only where the community lesson labels it and supplies base `sila lona`; no other module term is needed. Direct `tuleno`, `tupi`, `shonuwa`, `norawhi`, `rinu`, and `whemura` repair stale gaps or workarounds, and no lexical question remains open. + ### Resume point -Continue with `manual/part6_mastery/`. Check every translation, transmutation, dialogue, practice, and fluency claim against the completed lexicon and current canon, keep ordinary teaching in base vocabulary unless the subject explicitly earns a module term, and record every lexical question before the pass closes. +Continue with `manual/part7_reference/`. Separate maintained teaching and reference prose from generated lexicon views, preserve approved module furniture, and change a Phi passage only when current grammar or vocabulary improves its exact job. diff --git a/documents/validation/phonetic_neighbors_baseline.txt b/documents/validation/phonetic_neighbors_baseline.txt index 2fedd2b0..5f9e49b6 100644 --- a/documents/validation/phonetic_neighbors_baseline.txt +++ b/documents/validation/phonetic_neighbors_baseline.txt @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ # Generated by scripts/audit_phonetic_neighbors.py; do not hand-edit. # score unit_edits left left_gloss left_kind right right_gloss right_kind corpus_attestations -0.47 1 mia 1SG function mea thanks interjection 1842 +0.47 1 mia 1SG function mea thanks interjection 1843 0.47 1 lu COND function lo PL function 1573 0.47 1 shea peace content shia 3SG function 1438 0.47 1 nila see content nela COORD function 702 @@ -9,9 +9,9 @@ 0.47 1 wi two content we ALSO function 272 0.47 1 ro HAB function ru INTS function 264 0.47 1 ke INFER function ki PFV function 259 -0.47 1 si IPFV function se PASS function 241 +0.47 1 si IPFV function se PASS function 242 0.47 1 mu zero content mo CMPR function 227 -0.47 1 no IMP function nu ORD function 167 +0.47 1 no IMP function nu ORD function 168 0.47 1 ni HON.INTIM function ne NAME function 163 0.47 1 nophi story content nophe ABST.CLF function 97 0.47 1 te CESS function ti REP function 95 @@ -27,8 +27,8 @@ 0.47 1 thua fair content thoa AMONG function 28 0.47 1 sua who function soa sorry interjection 20 0.47 1 wenu tonic content weno when function 5 -0.47 1 phelu hold content phelo light content 215 -0.47 1 philu candle content phelu hold content 212 +0.47 1 phelu hold content phelo light content 216 +0.47 1 philu candle content phelu hold content 213 0.47 1 phaelo feel content phaelu peaceful content 164 0.47 1 loa give content lua lovely interjection 154 0.47 1 kelu become content kelo frame content 150 @@ -36,8 +36,8 @@ 0.47 1 shilu blue content shelu book content 126 0.47 1 shelu book content shelo signify content 124 0.47 1 shero night content shiro tree content 101 -0.47 1 solae explain content sulae warm content 95 -0.47 1 sulai musician content sulae warm content 91 +0.47 1 solae explain content sulae warm content 94 +0.47 1 sulai musician content sulae warm content 90 0.47 1 ruela path content roela scroll content 80 0.47 1 philo day content phelo light content 78 0.47 1 philu candle content philo day content 75 @@ -95,9 +95,9 @@ 0.47 1 thorai bless content thurai vibrant content 1 0.50 1 po POT function to PST function 2259 0.50 1 ko FOC function to PST function 2036 -0.50 1 thia 2SG function shia 3SG function 1946 -0.50 1 nia ON function mia 1SG function 1906 -0.50 1 sa HON.RESPECT function ha PROX function 746 +0.50 1 thia 2SG function shia 3SG function 1944 +0.50 1 nia ON function mia 1SG function 1907 +0.50 1 sa HON.RESPECT function ha PROX function 745 0.50 1 na NEC function ma NEG function 650 0.50 1 nua COM function mua LOC function 502 0.50 1 ta one content ka CAUS function 476 @@ -108,19 +108,19 @@ 0.50 1 hola laugh content shola QUOT.COMP function 273 0.50 1 thola bring content shola QUOT.COMP function 264 0.50 1 whola invite content shola QUOT.COMP function 252 -0.50 1 ki PFV function pi POL function 245 +0.50 1 ki PFV function pi POL function 246 0.50 1 ki PFV function ti REP function 225 +0.50 1 mo CMPR function no IMP function 224 0.50 1 theo read content pheo POST function 224 -0.50 1 mo CMPR function no IMP function 223 0.50 1 shua come content sua who function 219 0.50 1 ka CAUS function pa INCH function 212 0.50 1 shea peace content phea AS function 182 0.50 1 mu zero content nu ORD function 171 -0.50 1 he IRR function se PASS function 167 +0.50 1 he IRR function se PASS function 168 0.50 1 hi DIR function si IPFV function 164 0.50 1 theo read content sheo THAN function 154 0.50 1 hea hear content phea AS function 147 -0.50 1 pi POL function ti REP function 136 +0.50 1 pi POL function ti REP function 137 0.50 1 wheo elder content pheo POST function 134 0.50 1 te CESS function ke INFER function 129 0.50 1 pheo POST function sheo THAN function 118 @@ -133,8 +133,8 @@ 0.50 1 thola bring content sola DISJ function 64 0.50 1 wheo elder content sheo THAN function 64 0.50 1 hina what function phina FEW function 62 +0.50 1 muo INTO function nuo um interjection 52 0.50 1 whola invite content sola DISJ function 52 -0.50 1 muo INTO function nuo um interjection 51 0.50 1 phui flute content sui DUR function 43 0.50 1 phue wise content thue THROUGH function 39 0.50 1 thuo prosper content whuo WITHOUT function 35 @@ -155,13 +155,13 @@ 0.50 1 sheli impatient content theli EACH function 3 0.50 1 wheli ANY function theli EACH function 3 0.50 1 sheli impatient content wheli ANY function 2 -0.50 1 shelu book content phelu hold content 331 +0.50 1 shelu book content phelu hold content 332 0.50 1 sano know content whano stand content 312 0.50 1 phena kind content thena thing content 235 -0.50 1 selu flow content phelu hold content 216 +0.50 1 selu flow content phelu hold content 217 0.50 1 shua come content thua fair content 215 -0.50 1 thelu dialogue content phelu hold content 214 -0.50 1 phelu hold content helu smooth content 213 +0.50 1 thelu dialogue content phelu hold content 215 +0.50 1 phelu hold content helu smooth content 214 0.50 1 shena calm content thena thing content 212 0.50 1 sena pattern content thena thing content 204 0.50 1 thema guardian content thena thing content 204 @@ -178,8 +178,8 @@ 0.50 1 shao three-group content hao pardon interjection 103 0.50 1 noshi near (adj) content nophi story content 102 0.50 1 korua heart content torua year content 99 -0.50 1 phulae mouth content sulae warm content 94 0.50 1 korua heart content porua purpose content 93 +0.50 1 phulae mouth content sulae warm content 93 0.50 1 siora joy content phiora spirit content 90 0.50 1 hea hear content shea peace content 87 0.50 1 philo day content whilo white content 81 @@ -190,13 +190,13 @@ 0.50 1 thiro serene content shiro tree content 72 0.50 1 phoa do content whoa whole content 71 0.50 1 teli bell content keli device content 70 -0.50 1 sila community content whila hair content 68 +0.50 1 sila community content whila hair content 67 0.50 1 thero fire content shero night content 62 0.50 1 keru bright content teru process content 57 0.50 1 sholu complete content tholu space content 57 0.50 1 helui change content phelui word content 56 0.50 1 shelira forest content phelira mistaken content 54 -0.50 1 sila community content shila winter content 52 +0.50 1 sila community content shila winter content 51 0.50 1 noru bowl content moru wall content 44 0.50 1 shena calm content phena kind content 43 0.50 1 porua purpose content torua year content 42 diff --git a/manual/part6_mastery/ch21_social_context/01_the_vocative_kona.md b/manual/part6_mastery/ch21_social_context/01_the_vocative_kona.md index 27010a47..1261e397 100644 --- a/manual/part6_mastery/ch21_social_context/01_the_vocative_kona.md +++ b/manual/part6_mastery/ch21_social_context/01_the_vocative_kona.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ -# The vocative *kona*: calling with care +# The vocative *kona*: direct address -Every language needs a way to call someone: to open a channel before sending anything down it. Most languages do this with bare names, tone, or grammar bolted on elsewhere. Phi gives the act its own word: the vocative marker **kona**, which announces *I am addressing someone* before the someone is named. +A name spoken across a room might call its bearer or merely mention them. Phi can mark the first act explicitly. The vocative **kona** comes before the person, role, or group being addressed and keeps that address outside the clause that follows. ``` kona melu. mia ha nai. @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ VOC friend. 1SG PROX be. (Friend, I am here.) ``` -The announce-then-deliver principle reaches even here. Before your name arrives in my mouth, `kona` has already told you what is happening: you are being called, not discussed. In languages without this marker, hearing your own name carries a moment of ambiguity: *is someone talking to me or about me?* Phi removes that flicker of unease grammatically. +The first word settles one useful ambiguity: the friend is being addressed rather than discussed. It does not settle the speaker's tone, urgency, or purpose. Those still belong to the encounter. ## Structure @@ -16,20 +16,20 @@ The vocative phrase stands outside the sentence it accompanies. It claims no slo **`kona [ne] [Name or Title]. [Sentence]`** -When calling someone by name, the proper-name particle `ne` follows `kona` (with any honorific after it; see section 3). When calling by role or relation (friend, teacher, child), `ne` is not used: +When calling someone by name, the proper-name particle `ne` follows `kona`, with any honorific between `ne` and the name atom. A role or relation such as friend, teacher, or child is an ordinary noun and takes no `ne`: ``` kona ne keruko. wa thia towe nai. VOC NAME keruko. Q 2SG well be. (keruko, are you well?) -kona lopia. no wei mia shua. -VOC child. IMP DAT 1SG come. +kona lopia. no kau mia shua. +VOC child. IMP ALL 1SG come. (Child, come to me.) ``` -## The care in the calling +## What the marker contributes -Notice what `kona` costs: a syllable pair, a breath, before you may say anyone's name. That cost is the point. Address in Phi cannot be abrupt; the grammar itself performs the small ceremony of turning toward a person before speaking to them. In a crowded room, `kona` is the hand gently raised, not the shoulder grabbed. +`kona` makes direct address audible before the addressee arrives. It may be spoken gently across a table or quickly in danger; the marker itself promises neither ceremony nor care. What it offers is a small grammatical turn towards someone. What the speaker does with that turn remains their responsibility. -And because the vocative is extra-clausal, it can stand entirely alone. `kona ni moli.` (spoken softly across a garden) is a complete utterance: *I am calling you, dear one.* Sometimes the channel is the message. +Because the vocative is extra-clausal, it can also be a complete utterance on its own. `kona ni moli.` calls an established dear one without adding a claim or request. The answer may simply be a face turning towards the voice. diff --git a/manual/part6_mastery/ch21_social_context/02_politeness_pi.md b/manual/part6_mastery/ch21_social_context/02_politeness_pi.md index 34d3b79b..744df3a6 100644 --- a/manual/part6_mastery/ch21_social_context/02_politeness_pi.md +++ b/manual/part6_mastery/ch21_social_context/02_politeness_pi.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ -# Politeness *pi*: softening with grace +# Politeness *pi*: marking courtesy -The Slot 0 particle **pi** frames an entire utterance as respectful. It is the first word of the sentence when present, politeness announced before anything else, so the listener receives every following word inside that frame: +The Slot 0 particle **pi** marks an entire utterance as polite or considerate. When it combines with another sentence frame, it comes first: ``` pi no lumani naphe. @@ -12,18 +12,18 @@ POL Q 2SG POT help. (Could you please help?) ``` -## What *pi* actually does +## What *pi* does -English politeness is mostly *indirection*: "Could you possibly…", "I was wondering whether…" The request hides inside a question about ability or a report about wondering. The listener must decode the real message, and the speaker can always retreat ("I was only asking!"). +English often puts a request inside a question about ability or a report about what the speaker was wondering. Phi can do less circling. `pi no lumani naphe` is openly a directive, and `pi` marks the speaker's courteous stance towards it. -`pi` works differently. The request stays direct (`no lumani naphe` is still plainly an imperative), and the respect is carried by an explicit marker instead of by camouflage. Nothing is hidden, nothing needs decoding, and no one can pretend the request was not a request. This is politeness as *transparency* rather than politeness as *evasion*: the Phi way. +Courtesy does not change the clause's force. `pi no` remains a directive, while `pi wa` remains a question. Authority, safe refusal, and consent are separate facts. The grammar exposes the courtesy and the sentence type; the relationship supplies the rest. ## Ordering -When `pi` combines with other Slot 0 particles, politeness comes first: `pi no …` (polite command), `pi wa …` (polite question), `pi su …` (polite wish). The pattern is fixed: respect is the outermost frame, wrapped around even the sentence's own speech-act. +The documented combinations are `pi no ...` for a polite directive and `pi wa ...` for a polite yes-or-no question. An ordinary polite statement may begin with `pi` alone. In every case, the courtesy marker stands at the outer edge of the sentence. ## When *pi* matters most -Since Phi's imperative `no` is already unadorned (commands in Phi are simply announced, not barked), `pi` does its most important work exactly where requests carry weight: asking for effort, interrupting, disagreeing, addressing someone whose time is precious. A rule of thumb from practice: if the request costs the other person something, spend the syllable. +A speaker may choose `pi` when asking for effort, interrupting, disagreeing, or entering another person's attention. The syllable can make consideration audible, but a gentle voice can still carry pressure. A considerate request also leaves practical room for the answer to be no. -But do not salt every sentence with it. `pi` marks a *chosen* respect; used constantly it dwindles into noise, and its absence starts to read as rudeness: the inflation that ruined "please" in English. Phi's politeness stays meaningful because it stays deliberate. +There is no requirement to put `pi` on every sentence. An unmarked assertion or question may be entirely courteous, and repeated `pi` may become an ordinary habit within a relationship. The particle records a choice in the utterance, not the speaker's character. diff --git a/manual/part6_mastery/ch21_social_context/03_the_honorific_system.md b/manual/part6_mastery/ch21_social_context/03_the_honorific_system.md index e117f121..f22ad349 100644 --- a/manual/part6_mastery/ch21_social_context/03_the_honorific_system.md +++ b/manual/part6_mastery/ch21_social_context/03_the_honorific_system.md @@ -1,10 +1,10 @@ # The honorific system: *sa*, *ni*, *le* -Most honorific systems encode rank: who stands above whom, and how far. Phi's system refuses that axis entirely. Its three honorifics encode **relationship**, the speaker's own connection to the person named, and no relationship outranks another: +Many honorific systems encode distinctions of rank, age, office, or familiarity. Phi's three honorifics make a narrower claim: each states the speaker's relationship to the person named. | Particle | Gloss | Announces | |---|---|---| -| `sa` | HON.RESPECT | respect for a mentor, elder, or one whose experience you honor | +| `sa` | HON.RESPECT | regard for a mentor, elder, or person whose experience the speaker respects | | `ni` | HON.INTIM | intimacy with a close friend or family member | | `le` | HON.ROLE | respect for a person in their community role or function | @@ -24,14 +24,14 @@ NAME HON.ROLE siora FUT come. ## Placement -Honorifics appear immediately before the name, after the proper-name particle `ne` when it is present. Formal, neutral, and portable speech keeps `ne` (`ne keruko`, `ne ni moli`). Once a referent is established, conversational speech may let either the honorific (`kona ni moli`) or unambiguous context (`sulae shua`) carry the expectation. The primer's household uses that shorter pattern at its table, but the license comes from established discourse rather than a grammatical measure of intimacy or presence. Keeping `ne` is correct in every register. Productive name-forms absent from the current lexicon use `ne` in machine-validated writing so the validator never has to guess whether an unknown token is a name. +Honorifics appear immediately before the name, after the proper-name particle `ne` when it is present. Formal, neutral, portable, and machine-validated Phi keeps `ne` (`ne keruko`, `ne ni moli`). Once a referent is established, conversational speech may let either the honorific (`kona ni moli`) or unambiguous context (`sulae shua`) carry the name expectation. Keeping `ne` is correct in every register, and a productive onym absent from the lexicon always needs it in validated writing. ## Relationship, not rank -Look again at the three words. A teacher addressed with `sa` is not *above* the student; the student is announcing their own respect. A grandmother addressed with `ni` by her grandchild and with `sa` by a neighbor is not two different ranks: she is two different *relationships*, both spoken truthfully. `le` honors the healer, the facilitator, the keeper of the bridge (the role a community depends on) without making the person in the role anyone's superior. +A teacher addressed with `sa` is not placed above the student by that particle; the student is stating regard. A grandmother may receive `ni` from a grandchild and `sa` from a neighbour because the speakers stand in different relationships to her. `le` can recognise a facilitator or the person tending a shared bridge while they undertake that work. None of the three particles grants authority. -This is why Phi's honorifics cannot be omitted *upward* or demanded *downward*, the way rank-based systems are policed. There is no upward. There is only the truth of how you stand to each other, declared before the name: one more instance of the language announcing a relationship before delivering its content. +Rank-neutral grammar does not remove rank or unequal power from a family, school, workplace, or institution. Someone may still demand a form of address, and another person may still decline it. Phi supplies no grammatical category of upward deference; it cannot make the surrounding relationship equal by leaving one out. ## Choosing honestly -The only rule is honesty. `ni` for someone you barely know is not friendliness, it is a claim you have not earned; `sa` for a peer is not courtesy, it is distance. And no honorific at all, plain `ne keruko`, is always correct, always neutral, never cold. The honorifics are not obligations. They are opportunities to say true things about connection, one syllable at a time. +`ni` claims an existing close bond, so it is not a general friendliness marker for strangers. `sa` may fit a peer whose experience the speaker genuinely respects, and `le` belongs to a role the person is currently undertaking. Plain `ne keruko` is neutral and fully correct. An honorific is useful when its relationship claim is the one the speaker means to make. diff --git a/manual/part6_mastery/ch21_social_context/04_register_and_formality.md b/manual/part6_mastery/ch21_social_context/04_register_and_formality.md index 993ff718..948d0fe2 100644 --- a/manual/part6_mastery/ch21_social_context/04_register_and_formality.md +++ b/manual/part6_mastery/ch21_social_context/04_register_and_formality.md @@ -1,26 +1,34 @@ # Register and formality -Phi has no formal conjugations, no honorific verb forms, no T-V pronoun split. Yet a Phi speaker can move between the register of a whispered word to a child and the register of a community assembly. Formality in Phi is built not from special forms but from **choices among ordinary ones**: how much you make explicit. +Phi has no formal conjugations, honorific verb forms, or T-V pronoun split. Speakers can still move between a familiar exchange and a public record by choosing how much ordinary information to make explicit. ## The instruments of register -**Fullness.** Topic-drop is Phi's casual warmth: once a subject is established, intimate speech lets it fall away. Formal speech retains subjects, spells out referents, closes every frame. The same two sentences: +### Fullness + +Once a subject is established, conversation may omit it while the reference remains clear. A formal account will often repeat subjects and identify referents because the words must travel beyond the immediate exchange. Required complementizer frames close in every register. Compare: ``` mia shelu theo. shelomu. 1SG book read. understand. -(I read the book. Understand.) [between friends] +(I read the book. I understand.) [established subject] mia shelu theo. mia shelomu. 1SG book read. 1SG understand. (I read the book. I understand.) [for the record] ``` -**Evidential care.** Marking your sources (`hi` for what you witnessed, `ti` for what you were told, `ho` for what you merely assume) is optional in Phi. Doing it consistently is the register of testimony, counsel, and teaching: the speech of someone taking responsibility for how they know. +### Source marking + +Evidentials are optional. `hi` claims direct perception, `ti` marks received information, and `ho` bases a claim on background expectation. Testimony, teaching, or a disputed account may call for frequent source marking because provenance matters there; an evidential still does not certify that the claim is true. + +### Classifier explicitness -**Classifier explicitness.** Counting people as `wi himo miona` rather than bare `wi miona` explicitly states the human category. A formal record may choose that added categorization, while either form is grammatical in every register. Inclusion does not make a record respectful, and omission does not make ordinary speech an inventory. +Counting people as `wi himo miona` rather than bare `wi miona` makes the selected human category audible. A record may choose that categorisation when it matters, while either form is grammatical in every register. Inclusion does not make a record respectful, and omission does not make ordinary speech careless. -**The framing particles.** `pi` (politeness), `su` (the optative of blessings and hopes), full vocatives with honorifics: each adds a layer of announced intention. Stack them and the register rises: +### Sentence frames and address + +A full vocative identifies the addressee, an honorific states a relationship, and `pi wa` marks a polite question. Combining them makes each piece explicit; it does not create a grammatical ladder of formality: ``` kona ne sa sulae. pi wa thia wei lo mia po thumela. @@ -28,8 +36,10 @@ VOC NAME HON.RESPECT sulae. POL Q 2SG DAT PL 1SG POT teach. (Honored sulae, could you teach us?) ``` -**Pace.** Careful duration can mark ceremony: full hiatus on every vowel pair and an intentional boundary at every period. Faster speech is still Phi when it preserves its phonemic contrasts and syllable count; pace is a social choice, not a grammatical or moral test. +### Pace + +Deliberate pacing can suit ceremony, while quick speech can suit an urgent or familiar exchange. Both remain Phi when the vowel hiatus, phonemic contrasts, and syllable count stay recoverable. Tempo is neither a grammatical register nor a moral test. -## What Phi's formality is *not* +## Fullness and power -It is never distance for its own sake, and never submission. A child speaking to an elder and an elder speaking to a child can use exactly the same forms: formality here measures the *care taken over the utterance*, not the gap between the speakers. When you raise your register in Phi you are not lowering yourself; you are spending more attention, and attention is the only currency the register system knows. +The same grammatical forms are available to a child speaking to an elder and an elder speaking to a child. Their power to refuse or impose consequences may still differ sharply. A fuller register makes more of the utterance recoverable to people beyond the moment; it does not measure submission, virtue, or the worth of either speaker. diff --git a/manual/part6_mastery/ch21_social_context/05_when_to_use_what.md b/manual/part6_mastery/ch21_social_context/05_when_to_use_what.md index 415c8c3f..f1e85841 100644 --- a/manual/part6_mastery/ch21_social_context/05_when_to_use_what.md +++ b/manual/part6_mastery/ch21_social_context/05_when_to_use_what.md @@ -1,47 +1,51 @@ # When to use what -The instruments of the last four sections combine into a small number of recognizable social situations. This section is a field guide. +The same few forms recur across ordinary social situations. Their grammar stays stable while tone, power, and relationship do the work no particle can inspect. ## Greeting someone -The warmest complete greeting in Phi is the one from the language guide: `mia thia lothea`, *I love you / I greet you with love*. Scale it with the tools you now have: +Phi already has a greeting: `kia`, *hello*. A vocative can identify who receives it, and an honorific can state the relationship when that matters: -- A friend, in passing: `kona melu.` (nothing more is needed) -- A friend, with warmth: `kona ni moli. wa thia towe nai.` -- An elder or mentor: `kona ne sa sulae. pi wa thia towe nai.` -- A gathering: `kona sila. su theula towe nai.` (Community, may all be well.) +- A passing greeting: `kia.` +- An established dear friend: `kona ni moli. kia. wa thia towe nai.` +- A respected mentor: `kona ne sa sulae. kia. pi wa thia towe nai.` +- A gathering: `kona sila. kia. su theula towe nai.` (Community, hello. May all be well.) ## Asking for something -Three dials, turned in this order: add `pi`; make the cost explicit rather than hiding it; and if the request is large, frame it as a wish (`su`) instead of a question, which leaves the other person entirely free: +A polite question and a polite directive make different grammatical moves: ``` -pi wa thia mia naphe. -POL Q 2SG 1SG help. -(Could you help me?) +pi wa thia mia po naphe. +POL Q 2SG 1SG POT help. +(Could you please help me?) -su thia mia po naphe. -OPT 2SG 1SG POT help. -(May it be possible for you to help me.) +pi no mia naphe. +POL IMP 1SG help. +(Please help me.) ``` -The optative version does not even ask. It hopes aloud, and lets the listener volunteer. For the largest requests, this is the Phi way. +The first form asks about possible help; the second directs it. In conversation, either may function as a request, and either may carry pressure. `su` is for a genuine wish, hope, prayer, or blessing. A wish used as a hint can press the listener as firmly as a plainly stated request. ## Disagreeing -Disagreement in Phi leans on the evidentials and the observation-feeling pattern from the transmutation chapter. Mark your knowledge honestly (`ho` if you are assuming), state the difference as two observations rather than one correction, and never skip the closer of a frame you opened: +Disagreement needs no special softener. State what you understand and where you differ. Add an evidential only when the source of a claim is part of the disagreement: ``` -thia mena sileta sulae nai meno haolu. mia ho ma shelomu. -2SG DECL.COMP sun warm be DECL.COMP.CLOSE speak. 1SG ASSUM NEG understand. -(You say the sun is warm. I, assuming, do not understand.) +mia shelomu. +1SG understand. +(I understand.) + +whekai mia ma nawo. +CONTR 1SG NEG agree. +(However, I do not agree.) ``` -Naming your own uncertainty (`ho`) does the work that softening phrases do in English, with none of the fog. +`ho` would not mean uncertainty here. It would claim that the predicate rests on background expectation. Agreement, certainty, and source are separate facts. ## Consoling -`phamo` (console) names the act; the grammar shapes it. Sit beside the feeling without correcting it, use `ni` if you have earned it, and let the optative carry what cannot be promised: +`phamo` (console) names the act. A speaker may acknowledge the feeling, use `ni` if the bond is real, and let the optative carry what cannot be promised: ``` kona ni moli. thia nuhemi. mia ha nai. @@ -53,6 +57,6 @@ OPT peace DAT 2SG come. (May peace come to you.) ``` -## The one-line summary +## What remains social -Politeness is a frame, not a mask; honorifics state a relationship from the speaker's perspective; formality can spend additional attention; and every tool in this chapter returns to Phi's modifier-first organizing principle. +The chapter's markers make address, courtesy, and relationship claims audible before the content they frame. They leave authority, consent, sincerity, and the safety of refusal where those facts have always lived: between the people speaking. diff --git a/manual/part6_mastery/ch22_transmutation/01_introduction.md b/manual/part6_mastery/ch22_transmutation/01_introduction.md index 6c3ee802..05760561 100644 --- a/manual/part6_mastery/ch22_transmutation/01_introduction.md +++ b/manual/part6_mastery/ch22_transmutation/01_introduction.md @@ -4,11 +4,11 @@ There is a question every learner eventually asks: "How do I say *X* in Phi?" An Translation and transmutation answer different questions. A close translation asks Phi to preserve the source's claims, distinctions, images, and force in sentences natural to the language. A transmutation asks what the source becomes when Phi's concepts and philosophy may change it. Neither practice is word-for-word substitution. -Both practices meet the same resistance. Phi's analytic, verb-final grammar reorganizes source sentence shapes. Its concept space draws different boundaries: `womu` joins dwelling and belonging, while `kuri` names only the bodily direction covered by one sense of English *right*. Some vocabulary is absent on purpose. A translator treats the resistance as a problem to solve or a loss to name. A transmuter may choose the change, but the source and gap log must make that choice visible. +Both practices meet the same resistance. Phi's analytic, verb-final grammar reorganises source sentence shapes. Its concept space draws different boundaries: `womu` names a home rather than every kind of house, while `kuri` names the right-hand bodily side rather than correctness or entitlement. Some vocabulary is absent by design. A translator treats the resistance as a problem to solve or a loss to name. A transmuter may choose the change, but the source and gap log must make that choice visible. **Transmutation** is the practice this chapter teaches: understand the idea beneath the sentence, then rebuild that idea from Phi's own concepts, grammar, and philosophy. The result is not a copy of the original. It is what the original *becomes* when it is thought in Phi. -The word is borrowed from the old alchemists, and the borrowing is honest: transmutation changes the substance, not just the label. Sometimes what comes out is smaller than what went in: a news article loses its statistics. Sometimes it follows Phi's values more closely: the second case study chooses the structure of nonviolent communication and records that choice instead of pretending grammar made it inevitable. +The word comes from alchemy, where transmutation changes the substance rather than its label. A news article may become a community account that keeps its exact figures in a source record. An accusatory sentence may become an observation, feeling, and request. Those are editorial acts. The transmuter records them instead of pretending that Phi's grammar made them inevitable. The text shelf names the method used for each rendering. The Metta Sutta, *lothea thole*, is a close translation: each claim in its chosen English source remains answerable to the Phi. *The North Wind and the Sun*, Schleicher's fable, and UDHR Article 1 set a close translation before a transmutation. The Babel story, the Heart Sutra, and five Tao chapters extend that arrangement across longer sources. On Children makes the comparison inside *The Prophet*, where Gibran's bow and arrow stand beside Phi's tree and seed. In each case the two promises can be compared within one work. The other adapted works are transmutations. Their changes are part of the work rather than defects hidden behind a source citation. diff --git a/manual/part6_mastery/ch22_transmutation/02_the_process.md b/manual/part6_mastery/ch22_transmutation/02_the_process.md index 3e3c7e3a..6f1631e2 100644 --- a/manual/part6_mastery/ch22_transmutation/02_the_process.md +++ b/manual/part6_mastery/ch22_transmutation/02_the_process.md @@ -1,36 +1,36 @@ # The transmutation process -Transmutation looks like inspiration from the outside, but it is a craft with steps. Here is the process, distilled from the texts that have been transmuted so far. +Transmutation can look like inspiration from the outside. On the page, it is a series of decisions that can be inspected and repeated. ## Step 1: Sit with the idea -Before touching the dictionary, ask what the sentence is actually *doing*. Not its words: its work. "The aesthetics of solarpunk merge the practical with the beautiful" is doing this work: it claims that two qualities people usually separate belong together. That claim is what must survive. The vocabulary of the original ("aesthetics," "merge") is scaffolding, and scaffolding does not ship. +Before touching the dictionary, ask what the sentence is doing. "The aesthetics of solarpunk merge the practical with the beautiful" claims that two qualities often separated belong together. A transmutation may carry that relation without preserving the source's nouns and metaphor. Translation would remain answerable to both. This step is where the methods separate. A translator asks which details make the source's claim exact. A transmuter decides which underlying work to carry and which source details may change. Both decisions require patience. ## Step 2: Find the Phi concepts -Now open the lexicon, but search by *meaning*, not by dictionary headword. Three places to look, in order: +Now open the lexicon and search by meaning rather than by one English headword. Three places deserve inspection: -1. **A single word.** Phi's holistic vocabulary often covers with one word what English needs a phrase for: `womu` (house+belonging) and `henoi` (enough, as a knowable thing). -2. **The compound registry** (`documents/reference/compounds.md`). Canonized idioms like `korua thero` (heart-fire: anger) and `remo kire` (thought-shape: a fixed view) are stable parts of the language. Use them before inventing. -3. **A new composition.** If neither exists, compose transparently from existing words, the way `nulae nophi` (sleep-story) makes "dream." If your composition is good, it may deserve a place in the registry. +1. A single word. `womu` (home) and `henoi` (enough) each carry a distinction that may take a phrase in English. +2. The compound registry (`documents/reference/compounds.md`). Established expressions such as `korua thero` (heart-fire: anger) and `remo kire` (thought-shape: a fixed view) are stable parts of Phi. +3. A transparent composition. `pheralu philo` makes a rain-day without requiring a separate word for every kind of day. A composition that develops a stable shared meaning may belong in the registry. -Once those places have been checked, choose honestly between composition and coinage. A transmutation also has the option to reframe, which its gap log records. Coinage follows the Word Creation Protocol and is settled before the passage is finished rather than improvised inside a sentence. +After checking those places, compare composition with coinage instead of treating either as a last resort. A transmutation may also reframe the source, and its gap log records that choice. A new root follows the Word Creation Protocol and is settled before the passage is finished rather than improvised inside a sentence. ## Step 3: Restructure Phi's shape is not English's shape. As you rebuild: -- **Break complex sentences into parallel simple ones.** Phi prefers a rhythm of short, complete statements over subordinated cascades. One idea per sentence, a period after each: Phi uses no commas. -- **Let the order announce.** Modifier before modified, context before action, clause openers paired with their closers. The sentence should unfold with no surprises at the end except the verb it promised. -- **Use the grammar's own instruments.** The optative `su` does the work of "may…" and "let…". Evidentials mark where knowledge comes from. Headless relatives (`rena … nai`) name whole categories without category nouns. +- Break a source sentence when separate Phi clauses make its relations clearer. Complex clauses remain available when the source needs them. Phi uses periods rather than commas between sentences. +- Keep modifier before modified. Prepositional material and objects precede the predicate, while complete dependent clauses precede the clauses they affect. Complementizer openers keep their closers. +- Use the grammar's own instruments. The optative `su` carries wishes and blessings. Evidentials can mark where knowledge comes from. Headless relatives beginning with `rena` can name a category without supplying a separate head noun. ## Step 4: Check the philosophy -Read the draft against the Five Pillars. Does it quantify what should stay qualitative? Does it accuse where it could observe? Does it borrow a hierarchy the language refuses? The grammar will usually have blocked these already (that is what it is for), but the check is part of the practice. +Read the draft against the Five Pillars. Ask whether a number clarifies the source or merely ranks, whether an accusation names needed responsibility or turns disagreement into combat, and whether a borrowed hierarchy belongs to the source. Grammar will not answer those questions. It only keeps the available choices audible. -Where the language *resists* the original (an exact statistic that needs a source record, a blame the passive declines to assign), pause. The resistance is information, not permission to erase relevant content. Sometimes a Phi summary can omit a detail while the source record preserves it; sometimes the detail is essential and must remain beside the passage. Sometimes the resistance reveals what the original was doing beneath its habits. +Where the language resists the original, pause. An exact unit may need its source record, and an absent actor may need to remain visibly absent rather than being invented. Resistance is information, not permission to erase content. A transmutation may omit a detail when its source and the reason remain visible; a close translation must keep working until the relevant distinction has a place. ## Step 5: Validate @@ -46,18 +46,28 @@ The Metta Sutta translation contains no unknown forms. A transmutation has the s Inside steps 2 through 4, the same five moves recur: the repertoire the shelf's texts were built with. The Tao Te Ching text (`texts/tao_te_ching.md`) names them inline as a worked guide; here is the repertoire itself, each move with the shelf's clearest demonstrations. -**The refusal.** When Phi cannot rebuild a line directly, ask what the line's virtue or mechanism looks like in Phi's own economy. *Contend* became takes-nothing and *leader* became the one-who-guides (Tao Te Ching); *master* became the separate acts of coercion and exploitation (Schleicher's fable); the Ring Verse's refusal became its text. If the source wording itself matters, preserve it outside the Phi passage rather than presenting transmutation as quotation. +### The refusal -**The reframe.** Replace the source's imagery with imagery Phi already owns, at the same depth. The archer, bow, and arrows became the wind, the tree, and living seeds (The Prophet); the felled tree became the tree in the great wind (Tao Te Ching); the scattering of Babel became a sowing (the Babel text). +When Phi cannot rebuild a line directly, ask what the line's virtue or mechanism looks like in Phi's own economy. *Contend* became takes-nothing and *leader* became the one-who-guides (Tao Te Ching); *master* became the separate acts of coercion and exploitation (Schleicher's fable); the Ring Verse's refusal became its text. If the source wording itself matters, preserve it outside the Phi passage rather than presenting transmutation as quotation. -**The carve.** When several Phi words cover one English word, the lexicon's carve notes decide: that is what they are for. The Tao is `keiro`, not `ruela`, because the carve separates the guiding way from the walked ground; calm, peaceful, and tranquil each have their own territory. +### The reframe -**The grammar-led choice.** Let a ruling shape the sentence, and trust the push. *Belong* must go through `phelu` (The Prophet: the possession ruling made the verse truer); *Real* turned out to be the habitual `ro` (The Velveteen Rabbit); *useful* became the possibility particle `po` (Tao Te Ching: emptiness opens rather than adds). +Replace the source's imagery with imagery Phi already owns, at the same depth. The archer, bow, and arrows became the wind, the tree, and living seeds (The Prophet); the felled tree became the tree in the great wind (Tao Te Ching); the scattering of Babel became a sowing (the Babel text). -**Composition.** Build the missing abstraction from the rules instead of coining: quality-nouns make the soft and the hard, event-nouns make life and death, `mu thena` counts honest emptiness (Tao Te Ching); a dream was always a sleep-story. +### The lexical distinction + +When several Phi words meet one English word, their descriptions and usage notes decide. The Tao is `keiro`, not `ruela`, because the first is a guiding way and the second is ground or a route that can be travelled. Calm, peaceful, and tranquil likewise keep separate ranges. + +### The grammar-led choice + +Let a ruling shape the sentence, and trust the push. *Belong* must go through `phelu` (The Prophet: the possession ruling made the verse truer); *Real* turned out to be the habitual `ro` (The Velveteen Rabbit); *useful* became the possibility particle `po` (Tao Te Ching: emptiness opens rather than adds). + +### Composition + +Build a thought from ordinary grammar when its parts deserve to remain visible. Quality nouns can name softness and hardness, event nouns can name living and dying, and `mu thena` gives the Tao Te Ching a count of zero things. A direct word such as `whemura` (dream) remains preferable when the text means that established concept rather than a newly made image. Coinage is one of the tools, not a penalty for exhausting the others. When a concept deserves its own root, leave the draft, follow the Word Creation Protocol, and return with a valid word. A shelf text may reach the end without a coin; that is evidence that composition did the work, not a target every text must meet. -## The process in one breath +## A working sequence -Sit with the idea. Find its Phi concepts: word, compound, or composition. Rebuild in Phi's shape. Listen where the language resists. Verify every word. What remains is the idea, thought in Phi. +Read the source until you can name what your rendering promises to preserve. Search the lexicon and registry, compare composition with coinage, then rebuild in Phi's order. The gap log records every deliberate loss. Validation catches forms and structures; the source still has to catch you when the sentence says less, more, or something else. diff --git a/manual/part6_mastery/ch22_transmutation/03_case_study_anger.md b/manual/part6_mastery/ch22_transmutation/03_case_study_anger.md index f826c423..1dc5da4f 100644 --- a/manual/part6_mastery/ch22_transmutation/03_case_study_anger.md +++ b/manual/part6_mastery/ch22_transmutation/03_case_study_anger.md @@ -8,11 +8,11 @@ A translator reaches for the word "angry" and finds no single Phi word with that ## Step 1: What is the sentence doing? -Three things at once, tangled together: reporting a feeling (something burns), assigning its cause (you lied), and, hidden inside the word "at," making an accusation (my feeling is *aimed* at you; you are its target and its container). +The sentence reports a feeling and assigns its cause. The English preposition "at" also aims that feeling towards the other person. A close rendering would need to preserve that force or name its loss. ## Step 2: The Phi concepts -The compound registry provides the feeling: **`korua thero`**, *heart-fire*. Note what the compound does that a word "anger" would not: it locates the feeling in the speaker's own heart and names it as a process: a fire, something that burns fuel, something that can go out. It observes the feeling without condemning the one who feels it. +The compound registry provides the feeling: **`korua thero`**, *heart-fire*. The image locates the anger in the speaker's felt centre. Fire suggests heat and change, but the compound does not decide how long the feeling lasts or what anyone does with it. The cause is plain vocabulary: `peshu` (lie), `to` for the past. @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ POL IMP DAT 1SG true speak. (Please speak truth to me.) ``` -An observation. A feeling. A request. Speakers of nonviolent communication will recognise the structure, and Phi has concise ways to express each part. The transmuter still chose it. A close translation could preserve more of the source's accusatory force; this rendering instead shows what happens when the sentence passes through Phi's commitment to nonviolent speech. +The rendering states an accusation, a feeling, and a requested change in separate clauses. That resembles a familiar nonviolent-communication sequence, but the first sentence still makes the serious claim that the listener lied. The transmuter chose both the separation and the added request. Phi's grammar chose neither. ## The fire as a source @@ -52,4 +52,4 @@ OPT NONE person ABL heart fire DAT 3SG harmful wish. ## What transmutation preserved and what it transformed -Preserved: the feeling, its intensity, its stated cause, the speaker's need. Transformed: the aim. English presents the addressee as the target of the feeling; this transmutation returns the feeling to the speaker while retaining the accusation as a separate clause. That is an interpretive choice. A close translation would owe the source its accusatory force; a transmutation owes the reader an account of why it changed it. +The transmutation preserves the feeling and its stated cause. It changes the aim of the anger and adds a request for truthful speech that the source never made. English presents the addressee as the target of the feeling; this version returns the feeling to the speaker while retaining the accusation as a separate clause. A translator would owe the source its accusatory force. This transmutation owes the reader the two changes just named. diff --git a/manual/part6_mastery/ch22_transmutation/04_case_study_news.md b/manual/part6_mastery/ch22_transmutation/04_case_study_news.md index 8964d8d7..f2f31045 100644 --- a/manual/part6_mastery/ch22_transmutation/04_case_study_news.md +++ b/manual/part6_mastery/ch22_transmutation/04_case_study_news.md @@ -1,23 +1,21 @@ # Case study: transmuting a news article -News is the hardest register for Phi, not because the language is too small, but because news writing concentrates everything Phi resists: precise counts, money, passive institutions, and knowledge presented without its source. Watch what survives. +News puts exact counts beside reported sources and absent actors. Material damage and financial estimates add their own burdens. Phi can carry some of this directly, while other details need a source record beside the passage. -> "Officials report that last night's storm damaged 47 homes in the -> village; 214 residents were evacuated, and reconstruction is expected -> to cost $2.3 million." +> "Officials report that last night's storm damaged 47 homes in the village; 214 residents were evacuated, and reconstruction is expected to cost $2.3 million." ## Step 1: What is the sentence doing? -Underneath the statistics, four facts a community actually needs: a storm came; homes were damaged; people got out safely; repair is beginning. And one fact about the *speaker*: they did not see any of this: they are passing on a report. +This transmutation chooses four claims for its Phi account: a storm came, homes were damaged, people moved to safety, and repair is expected. The counts stay because they fit Phi's exact numeral range. The source identity and dollar estimate remain beside the passage because their exact forms matter. ## Step 2: The Phi concepts - The storm: `kurisha`. The night: `shero`. - "Damaged" is `pukeri`, an adverse change that may leave the thing standing and recognizable. It keeps this case apart from `pukate` (break), while `ma sholu nai` (not be complete) remains available when wholeness itself is the point. -- The counts: 47 and 214 both fit Phi's exact range, as `ta lau wi phoi wi` and `wi rei ta lau wi phoi wi shao ta`. Because they are reported source facts, the original figures should also remain in the source record. A shorter community summary may use `lau womu` (homes on a twenty-seven-group scale) only if that loss of precision is acceptable for its purpose. -- "Evacuated" dissolves into what it means: people went to safety, `shurano`, safety as a place one can go to. -- "Officials report" is not a sentence in Phi; it is a **particle**. The reportative evidential `ti` marks every claim as received knowledge, which is exactly what news is. -- The dollar figure does not survive at all. Phi has no money vocabulary. Hold that thought. +- The counts: 47 and 214 both fit Phi's exact range, as `ta lau wi phoi wi` and `wi rei ta lau wi phoi wi shao ta`. The source record also keeps the familiar decimal forms. +- "Evacuated" becomes the reported event that people went to safety. The allative `kau` marks safety as their destination. +- The reportative evidential `ti` says that each proposition came from another source. The source record keeps the report's reference to officials and its exact wording. +- The dollar estimate remains outside Phi. The core lexicon deliberately has no money terms, while Phi can still discuss the labour, materials, and other resources involved in repair. ## Step 3: Rebuild @@ -30,16 +28,16 @@ ta lau wi phoi wi womu to ti pukeri. one twenty-seven-group two nine-group two home PST REP damage. (Forty-seven homes were damaged, so it is reported.) -wi rei ta lau wi phoi wi shao ta himo miona wei shurano to ti wepu. -two eighty-one-group one twenty-seven-group two nine-group two three-group one HUM.CLF person DAT safe PST REP go. +wi rei ta lau wi phoi wi shao ta himo miona kau shurano to ti wepu. +two eighty-one-group one twenty-seven-group two nine-group two three-group one HUM.CLF person ALL safe PST REP go. (Two hundred fourteen people went to safety, so it is reported.) -sila lo womu shiroka. -community PL home repair. -(The community repairs the homes.) +lo womu so se ti shiroka. +PL home FUT PASS REP repair. +(The homes will be repaired, so it is reported.) ``` -Notice the last sentence drops `ti`. The first three are received knowledge; the fourth is presented as what the village can see. In Phi, a report and a witness are grammatically different sentences. The exact source figures remain separately visible because translating them into ternary does not establish that the report is correct or complete. +Every sentence keeps `ti` because every claim comes from the report. The passive in the last line preserves the source's absent repairer instead of inventing one. A later witnessed account could name who did the work and use `hi`; that would be another report about another moment. ## What happened to the $2.3 million? @@ -48,9 +46,9 @@ The Phi summary omitted it, and that omission is a choice rather than a recovery Source record outside Phi: `$2.3 million` ``` -ha sirami ha wisola ti thelima. -PROX record PROX exchange REP describe. -(The report describes this exchange.) +ha sirami shiroka panuri thelima. +PROX record repair resource describe. +(This record describes repair resources.) ``` -News therefore has two legitimate outputs. A transmutation may foreground homes, safety, labor, and repair while explaining what it omits. A faithful report preserves names, counts, money, dates, and source wording in their own records beside the Phi account. Neither should impersonate the other. +The Phi passage and the source record do different work. The first makes the reported events discussable in Phi. The second preserves the reference to officials, decimal notation, currency, and exact wording. Calling the first a transmutation keeps that division honest. diff --git a/manual/part6_mastery/ch22_transmutation/05_case_study_poetry.md b/manual/part6_mastery/ch22_transmutation/05_case_study_poetry.md index 20daa6a4..e430cb2e 100644 --- a/manual/part6_mastery/ch22_transmutation/05_case_study_poetry.md +++ b/manual/part6_mastery/ch22_transmutation/05_case_study_poetry.md @@ -1,30 +1,52 @@ -# Case study: transmuting poetry +# Case study: knowing when poetry has enough -Poetry makes the choice between translation and transmutation hard to hide. A close translator would have to decide how Phi can keep this poem's frog, leap, sound, and form. This case study takes the other path and lets each gap change the poem. Take Bashō's haiku: +Poetry makes the choice between translation and transmutation hard to hide. Bashō's haiku gives Phi a pond, a frog, a jump, and a sound, and the lexicon has a direct word for every one of them: > *furu ike ya / kawazu tobikomu / mizu no oto* > old pond — / a frog leaps in / the sound of water ## Step 1: What is the poem doing? -Three images in sequence: long stillness; a sudden living interruption; the stillness answering. The frog is not the point. The *event* is the point: the moment the silent world makes a sound and returns to itself. +The poem places an old pond, a frog's sudden movement, and the sound of water in sequence. A reader may find stillness and interruption there, but the translator does not need to erase the frog to make that reading possible. ## Step 2: The Phi concepts -- Old pond: `serao` (old), `melothe` (pond). Direct. -- The frog: a gap. This version chooses not to coin a frog. It reads the creature's function as *a small living thing*, then uses `nolika` (animal, a living creature) and lets each reader supply the rest. A translation could not make that substitution silently. -- "Leaps in": another gap, no word for leap. But consider what the leap *is* in this poem: an arrival. The creature arrives into the water. `kamo` (arrive) with `muo` (into) carries the suddenness of the splash: the moment of contact, which is all the poem shows anyway. -- "The sound of water": Phi has no "sound," but it has `haoni`, *voice*. And possession in Phi is possessor-first: `phialu haoni`, *the water's voice*. That choice turns the gap into speech: water answers, which is how this telling reads the haiku's final gesture. +- Old pond: `serao melothe`. +- Frog: `tuleno`, the ordinary base word. +- Jump into water: `muo phialu tupi`, with the destination before the verb. +- Sound of water: `phialu shonuwa`, possessor before possessed. -## Step 3: Rebuild +## Step 3: Keep the source details + +The close rendering uses those direct words: + +``` +serao melothe. +old pond. +(The old pond.) + +tuleno muo phialu tupi. +frog INTO water jump. +(A frog jumps into the water.) + +phialu shonuwa. +water sound. +(The sound of water.) +``` + +The first and last lines are verbless images, while the only verb lands in the middle line. Phi's verb-final order puts `tupi` after the frog and its destination. Nothing in the grammar claims that this is Bashō's original rhythm, but the three images remain intact. + +## A deliberate transmutation + +The interpretive path is still available as a separate work: ``` serao melothe. old pond. (The old pond.) -nolika muo phialu kamo. -animal INTO water arrive. +limoe muo phialu kamo. +creature INTO water arrive. (A creature arrives into the water.) phialu haoni. @@ -32,12 +54,12 @@ water voice. (The water's voice.) ``` -Three lines. The first and last are verbless (a noun phrase of stillness, a noun phrase of sound) with the poem's only verb, `kamo`, landing in the middle line exactly where the splash lands. The form was not copied from the Japanese; it re-emerged from Phi's own grammar, which permits verbless images and puts every verb at the moment of impact. +This version turns the frog into an unnamed creature, the jump into an arrival, and sound into voice. Those changes are not repairs for missing vocabulary. They make the water answer and let the creature recede into the event. A transmuter may want that poem, but should not call it a close translation of Bashō's details. ## On form -The Phi version does not chase the 5-7-5 syllable count. Its hiatus-rich words have their own rhythm (`se-ra-o me-lo-the`: five slow beats of stillness), and the poem keeps its shape as stillness, event, and resonance. A close translation might make another decision about form. Original Phi poetry answers only to the language's own music; its long vowel chains want to be read slowly. +Neither Phi version copies a 5-7-5 syllable pattern. Full hiatus gives `serao melothe` six syllables. A translator may choose a formal constraint and record what it costs; a transmuter may build a different rhythm. Tempo remains the reader's choice. -## What the gaps gave +## What the choice shows -The missing words changed three details: the frog became an unnamed creature, the leap became an arrival, and sound became the water's voice. A close translation would need to retain or coin those distinctions. This telling relinquishes them in return for a different poem, and the gap log makes the exchange plain. +The direct vocabulary makes the boundary unusually clear. One version keeps the frog, jump, and sound. The other gives them up for a new image. Transmutation is not improved by changing a source merely because change is permitted; sometimes the close rendering is the answer with less to apologise for. diff --git a/manual/part6_mastery/ch22_transmutation/06_practice.md b/manual/part6_mastery/ch22_transmutation/06_practice.md index b308e45a..a63ee88d 100644 --- a/manual/part6_mastery/ch22_transmutation/06_practice.md +++ b/manual/part6_mastery/ch22_transmutation/06_practice.md @@ -16,20 +16,20 @@ Transmute: > "I'm jealous of my friend's garden." -There is currently no core word for jealousy. Follow the anger case study: what is the observation? (Your friend's garden is beautiful; yours is what it is.) What feeling or wish lies underneath: `nuhe`, `pula`, heart-fire? Compose the honest triad. Preserve the source term exactly if it is itself under discussion, and record repeated compositional failure for case-by-case review. +The compound registry gives **`phelu pula`**, *holding-wish*, for envy or jealousy. Test its possession relation against this sentence: what does the friend hold, and what does the speaker want? If fear of loss or comparison is doing more of the work, name that instead of forcing the compound. Preserve the source term exactly if jealousy itself is under discussion. ## Exercise 3: Small news (evidentials and numbers) -Transmute something from today's news, one sentence. Requirements: every claim you did not witness carries `ti`; every number is rendered as an exact or approximate Phi quantity when that is adequate, or preserved in source material when its exact form matters; anything the language refuses (money, rankings, blame) is analyzed without silently erasing relevant source content. Write one sentence about what remained outside Phi or was omitted and why. +Transmute something from today's news in one sentence. Every claim received from the report carries `ti`. Render a number in Phi when its exact or approximate form is adequate, and preserve its source notation when that form matters. Keep names and identifiers beside the Phi passage. Units and money stay with their source notation. Then write one sentence about anything the transmutation omitted or reframed. ## Exercise 4: A poem (the gap as collaborator) -Choose a short poem you love, two to four lines. Transmute it, and keep a **gap log** like the one beside the Metta Sutta translation: every missing word, and what you did instead. The exercise is scored, if you like, by a single question: did any gap force an image *better* than the original's? If none did, sit longer. +Choose a short poem you love, two to four lines. Attempt both a close translation and a transmutation, and keep a gap log for each missing distinction and what you did instead. Compare the results. If the transmutation changes details without gaining a coherent Phi work, keep the translation; permission to depart is not a duty to do so. ## Exercise 5: Your own words (the full arc) -Write three sentences about your day, directly in Phi, no English draft. This is not transmutation of a text but of experience, which is where the method was always headed. Then validate: every word must exist. If you needed a word the language lacks, you have found either a compound worth proposing for the registry, or, rarely, a genuine gap worth bringing to the Word Creation Protocol. Both discoveries are contributions. +Write three sentences about your day directly in Phi, without an English draft. Then validate them. If the thought needs a distinction the language lacks, compare a transparent composition with a new root and record the question before choosing. Ordinary source-bound detail may instead stay in an accompanying record. ## The habit -The exercises end; the practice does not. Whenever you catch yourself asking "how do I say this in Phi?", let the question complete itself: "…and what will Phi do with it?" The first question has an answer. The second has a result, and the results, accumulated, are the language's literature. +When "How do I say this in Phi?" produces a tidy answer, test it against a second question: "What changed while I was saying it?" Sometimes the answer is nothing, and the close translation stands. Sometimes the change is the whole work. The gap log keeps the two from borrowing each other's name. diff --git a/manual/part6_mastery/ch23_living_in_phi/01_daily_practice.md b/manual/part6_mastery/ch23_living_in_phi/01_daily_practice.md index 7f678651..24f1caf6 100644 --- a/manual/part6_mastery/ch23_living_in_phi/01_daily_practice.md +++ b/manual/part6_mastery/ch23_living_in_phi/01_daily_practice.md @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@ # Daily practice -A language becomes real in minutes, not marathons. Phi asks so little time that the honest obstacle is never the schedule: it is remembering that the practice exists. These suggestions are ordered by size; take the smallest one that you will actually do. +A language becomes available through use. Daily life offers small recurring places for Phi without turning practice into another schedule to satisfy. Choose one that fits the day you actually have. -## One sentence at waking (30 seconds) +## One sentence at waking Before the day's first screen or first task, one Phi sentence about the morning, spoken aloud with full hiatus: @@ -12,28 +12,28 @@ day come. 1SG PROX be. (The day comes. I am here.) ``` -The bare present and the plain copula do the whole work of arrival. Change the sentence with the weather, the light, the mood: `sileta shua` (the sun comes), `pheralu shua` (the rain comes), `mia shorui nai` (I am weary). The point is not variety. The point is that the day's first grammar was deliberate. +The bare present and plain copula carry the arrival. Change the sentence with the weather, light, or mood: `pheralu shua` (the rain comes), `kelua phelo nai` (the morning is light), `mia shorui nai` (I am weary). The vocabulary may vary; the useful part is attending to one actual morning. -## Naming while walking (5 minutes) +## Naming while walking -Walk anywhere and name what you pass, noun by noun, with the demonstratives: `ha shiro` (this tree), `ra womu` (that home), `lo pelori` (birds). When a name is missing, notice the gap without reaching for English: *that is a thing I cannot yet say* is itself a mindful observation, and the gaps you keep meeting are the vocabulary you should learn next. +Walk anywhere and name what you pass, noun by noun, with the demonstratives: `ha shiro` (this tree), `ra womu` (that home), `lo pelori` (birds). When a word is missing, notice what kind of absence it is. The word may already sit in an optional module, the idea may compose, or its exact identity may belong to source material. A recurring ordinary gap is worth recording rather than quietly losing. -## The evening pair (2 minutes) +## The evening pair -At day's end, two sentences: one thing witnessed, one thing felt. The evidential `hi` and the verb `phaelo` keep them honest: +At day's end, write two sentences: one thing witnessed, one thing felt. The evidential `hi` marks the first as directly perceived, while `phaelo` gives the feeling its own clause: ``` -mia sileta lumae hi nila. mia shea phaelo. -1SG sun end DIR see. 1SG peace feel. -(I saw the sunset with my own eyes. I feel peace.) +mia norawhi hi nila. mia shea phaelo. +1SG dusk DIR see. 1SG peace feel. +(I saw the dusk with my own eyes. I feel peace.) ``` -On harder days the second sentence may be `mia nuhe phaelo`, and saying so plainly, in a language built to hold it gently, is the practice working exactly as designed. +On a harder day the second sentence may be `mia nuhe phaelo`, *I feel sadness*. The exercise does not ask the feeling to improve before it can be written. -## The weekly transmutation (20 minutes) +## A recurring transmutation -Once a week, one real transmutation: a proverb, a headline, a verse (the exercises of chapter 22). This is where vocabulary consolidates and the grammar stops being rules and starts being reflexes. +Choose a recurring point in the week for one transmutation: a proverb, headline, or verse from chapter 22. Repeated retrieval can make vocabulary and grammar easier to reach, though the result may arrive unevenly and some sentences will continue to need the lexicon open. ## The rule of gentleness -Missed days are not debts. Phi has no vocabulary for productivity guilt, and the practice should not import any. `su thia moli thole`, may you practice gently. Begin again at the next morning sentence; the language will be there. +Missed days are not debts. `su thia moli thole`, may you practise gently. Begin again with the next sentence that has something worth saying. diff --git a/manual/part6_mastery/ch23_living_in_phi/02_journaling.md b/manual/part6_mastery/ch23_living_in_phi/02_journaling.md index 4d080f69..e535aff5 100644 --- a/manual/part6_mastery/ch23_living_in_phi/02_journaling.md +++ b/manual/part6_mastery/ch23_living_in_phi/02_journaling.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ # Journaling in Phi -A journal is the natural home of a written language, and Phi was made for exactly the kind of writing a journal wants: slow, honest, present-tense, unperformed. The new verb for the act is `thekiro` (write), thought given lasting form, and a journal is where that form accumulates into a life. +A journal gives Phi somewhere to be used without an audience waiting for the next word. `thekiro` means to write language on a surface so it can be read later. That ordinary act is enough to begin. ## Start smaller than feels serious @@ -20,13 +20,13 @@ Date the entry in ternary if you like (`nu ta shao philo`, the third day), ident ## The three-line form -A form that has emerged from practice, one line each: +A useful form gives one line to each of three jobs: -1. **Witness**, something seen or heard, marked `hi`: the day's one kept image. -2. **Feeling**, `phaelo` with whatever is true: `shea`, `nuhe`, `siora`, `korua thero`. The compound registry is a journal's best friend; feelings that lack single words are usually the ones worth writing down. -3. **Wish**, an optative for tomorrow: `su mia moli thumela.` (May I teach gently.) `su lo mia therilu.` (May we rest.) +1. Witness something seen or heard, marked `hi` when direct perception itself matters. +2. Name a feeling with `phaelo`: `shea`, `nuhe`, `siora`, or the registered `korua thero`. A feeling may need a transparent description instead of one label. +3. Write a wish in the optative: `su mia moli thumela.` (May I teach gently.) `su lo mia therilu.` (May we rest.) -Witness, feeling, wish: past, present, future, one line each, every tense particle earning its place. +The lines often move from a past witness through a present feeling to a future wish. That order is a journaling form, not a rule of Phi, and each clause carries only the tense it actually needs. ## Write the gaps down @@ -34,4 +34,4 @@ When the day contains something Phi cannot yet say, preserve the source artifact ## Privacy of a different kind -There is a quiet, practical grace to a Phi journal: almost no one on Earth can read it yet. But the deeper privacy is this: thoughts written in Phi have already passed through its filters once. The scorekeeping, the self-accusation, the anxious arithmetic of an English-language diary find little vocabulary here. What is left to write is what the language keeps: what happened, what it felt like, what you hope. Some days that will seem like a limitation. Most days it will be the reason you kept the journal. +A Phi journal is not private merely because few people can read it. Anyone who learns the language may eventually understand the page, and ordinary care with storage still matters. What Phi can offer is a second look: an evidential asks how an event became known, and a feeling clause keeps an emotion apart from the person having it. The language can still carry self-accusation, counting, or haste. The writer decides whether those habits deserve another sentence. diff --git a/manual/part6_mastery/ch23_living_in_phi/03_meditation.md b/manual/part6_mastery/ch23_living_in_phi/03_meditation.md index 2ff5adaa..1b1a1cd8 100644 --- a/manual/part6_mastery/ch23_living_in_phi/03_meditation.md +++ b/manual/part6_mastery/ch23_living_in_phi/03_meditation.md @@ -1,10 +1,10 @@ # Meditation and Phi -Phi and sitting practice were designed for each other: the language's Buddhist pillar is not decoration but structure. This section offers three ways the language and the cushion can share their work. None requires belief in anything; all require only breath and attention. +Phi draws openly from Buddhist mindfulness and Right Speech, so meditation is one honest place to practise it. The suggestions here use repeated phrases, grammatical noticing, and the Metta Sutta. They are language exercises rather than requirements for belief or one approved way of sitting. ## Phrase practice -The oldest use of language in meditation is the repeated phrase. Phi's hiatus makes its phrases naturally metrical (every vowel its own beat), so a short sentence settles into breath rhythm without forcing. Four that practitioners have found durable: +A short Phi phrase can be repeated with each vowel kept in its own syllable. A speaker may fit the phrase to the breath, or use another rhythm if that is more comfortable. Four possible phrases are: ``` mia ha nai. @@ -20,15 +20,15 @@ henoi. (Enough.) ``` -The last is a complete practice in one word. Breathe in; on the exhale, `he-no-i`, three beats. `Henoi` names a contextual judgment of sufficiency; in meditation, the practitioner chooses to apply that judgment to this breath or session rather than deriving it from a number. +The last can stand alone: `he-no-i`, three syllables with stress on `no`. `henoi` names a contextual judgement of sufficiency. In meditation, a practitioner may apply that judgement to the present breath or sitting rather than derive it from a number. ## The particles as attention training -Slot 1 is a map of the meditating mind. Sitting, notice a thought and tag it silently with the particle it would need: a memory is `to`, a plan is `so`, a worry is usually `so ho`, an assumed future. The tagging is not analysis; it is the same gentle noting that any mindfulness tradition teaches, except the labels come from your grammar instead of a manual. Speakers report that after enough sitting, the tags fire on their own in conversation too, which is the language doing openly what it was always designed to do quietly. +Slot 1 can supply prompts for grammatical noticing. If a silent Phi sentence concerns a past event, it needs `to`; a future event needs `so`; a claim based only on background expectation may take `ho`. These are properties of the imagined sentence, not diagnoses of the mind. A memory may concern the present, a plan is more than future tense, and worry has no required particle. The exercise is simply to notice what claim the thought would make if spoken. ## The metta recitation -The language has its own complete loving-kindness text: *lothea thole*, the Metta Sutta translation in the pamphlets. Its refrain was built for recitation: +The text shelf includes *lothea thole*, a complete translation of the Metta Sutta. Its refrain works well in recitation: ``` su theula limoe siora korua phelu. @@ -36,4 +36,4 @@ OPT UNIV creature joy heart hold. (May every creature hold a joyful heart.) ``` -The full text, read aloud with complete hiatus, takes about four minutes: a sitting in itself. Reciting it does double duty that no other practice in this manual can match: every repetition deepens both the metta and the Phi. The tradition that gave Phi its mindfulness pillar always taught in this way: meaning carried on rhythm, rhythm carried on breath. The language has come home to the method. +Reading the full text aloud practises both its loving-kindness teaching and the sound of Phi. Repetition can make the forms familiar, while attention to the source keeps pronunciation from replacing meaning. The text is available at `texts/metta_sutta.md`; a reader may take one verse or the whole work. diff --git a/manual/part6_mastery/ch23_living_in_phi/04_community.md b/manual/part6_mastery/ch23_living_in_phi/04_community.md index f46b36fa..b3409d8a 100644 --- a/manual/part6_mastery/ch23_living_in_phi/04_community.md +++ b/manual/part6_mastery/ch23_living_in_phi/04_community.md @@ -1,24 +1,24 @@ # Finding or building community -`sila`, community, is one of Phi's oldest words, and the language is explicit about its own sociality: a tongue built for collaborative art wants more than one speaker. But community around a young constructed language does not arrive; it is built, usually by exactly one person deciding to be unembarrassed about it. Here is what that looks like at three scales. +`sila` means community. For a constructed language with few speakers, a community may begin with one other person willing to receive a sentence and send one back. That modest beginning still requires an invitation rather than an imagined audience. ## A community of two -Everything begins here, and two is enough. A partner, a friend, a child, a correspondent: one other person who will receive a Phi sentence and eventually return one. Practical first steps that have worked: +Two people are enough for an exchange. A partner, friend, child, or correspondent may prefer a small shared practice to a course. Some possible beginnings are: -- **The greeting pact.** Two people agree to exchange one fixed greeting daily (`kona melu. wa thia towe nai.`) and nothing more until it feels natural. Vocabulary grows outward from ritual, not the reverse. -- **The written exchange.** Letters or messages with three-line journal entries (witness, feeling, wish). Writing forgives slow recall; conversation punishes it. Start written. -- **Teaching as learning.** `thumela` and `shonela` are built to be unconfusable for a reason: the fastest way to consolidate your Phi is to teach its first chapter to someone else. +- Exchange one fixed greeting, such as `kia. wa thia towe nai.`, until both people can reach it easily. +- Send the three-line journal form from the previous section. Writing leaves time to consult the lexicon before answering. +- Teach one small distinction to each other. Explaining why `thumela` means teach and `shonela` means learn can expose which one still needs practice. ## A circle -Three to nine people (`ta shao` to `ta phoi`) can form a small practice circle. A circle can do what pairs cannot: recite together (the metta refrain was made for unison), transmute together (chapter 22's exercises work as a table conversation), and disagree together, which is where the language's peace practices need actual choices rather than grammatical promises. +A small group can form a practice circle. It can recite a metta verse in unison, work through one transmutation at a table, or test the disagreement language from chapter 21. The last activity matters because peace-oriented grammar still needs people to make difficult choices together. -One structural suggestion from experience: let every gathering produce *one artifact*: a transmuted proverb, a new compound proposed for the registry, three sentences of collective journal. Community around a language survives on the things it makes. +One possible structure is to let each gathering produce one modest artefact: a transmuted proverb, a proposed compound, or a few sentences written together. The object gives the next gathering somewhere concrete to begin. ## The language as commons -Phi's vocabulary treats community as a living system: `sila` flows, `wesoma` is mutuality, `kowela` is the council. Treat the language itself the same way. Its lexicon is versioned and public within your circle; its gaps are anyone's to notice; its new words pass through the same gentle protocol whoever proposes them. A conlang with one owner is a work of art. A conlang with a commons is a language. Phi was always meant to make the crossing, and every practice in this chapter (the pacts, the circles, the artifacts) is a plank in that bridge. +Base `wesoma` can describe a mutual relation. The optional Commons word `kowela` names a continuing council; a speaker who has not learned the module can use `sila lona`, a community meeting, when one gathering is enough. Shared use also needs a stated way to settle changes: anyone may notice a gap or propose a word, while the lexicon remains one public record rather than splitting with every circle. A community grows through what its members can actually return to together. `su sila thuroa.` (May the community grow.) diff --git a/manual/part6_mastery/ch23_living_in_phi/05_the_ongoing_journey.md b/manual/part6_mastery/ch23_living_in_phi/05_the_ongoing_journey.md index beffa411..34592813 100644 --- a/manual/part6_mastery/ch23_living_in_phi/05_the_ongoing_journey.md +++ b/manual/part6_mastery/ch23_living_in_phi/05_the_ongoing_journey.md @@ -1,29 +1,29 @@ # The ongoing journey -This is the last section of the last teaching chapter, so it should say plainly what all the others have implied: there is no finish line, and that is not a consolation; it is the design. +A learner reaches the last teaching page with a suspiciously intact supply of things still to learn. That is ordinary. Phi's grammar can become familiar; the choices made with it do not run out. ## What mastery is here -You will never conjugate a Phi verb wrongly, because there is nothing to conjugate. The grammar you learned in Part IV is the whole grammar; the manual holds no trapdoors. So mastery in Phi cannot mean what it means in French or Japanese: surviving the irregularities. It means something rarer: the day the language's choices become your reflexes. The day you feel the pull to say who told you before you repeat a claim. The day "how many, exactly?" starts to sound like a strange question. The day anger arrives already shaped as heart-fire: something you have, in a heart you can tend, rather than something you are. +Phi verbs do not conjugate, but errors remain possible: a particle in the wrong slot, a missing closer, or the wrong word. Fluency means that more of those forms arrive without deliberate assembly. It may also make the language's distinctions easier to notice: whether a repeated claim was witnessed or reported, whether an exact count helps, whether anger is better named as `korua thero` than turned into an identity. -The old teachers of this manual's first pages said the constraints are the teaching. Mastery is when the teaching no longer needs the constraints. +Automatic grammar frees attention for the utterance. Mindfulness still belongs to the speaker: truth, timing, and care remain choices even after the particles come easily. ## The language will keep growing -You hold the manual of a young language. Its lexicon passed nine hundred words in the season this chapter was written; its first complete text is newer still. Gaps remain, and you will find them: in your journal margins, mid-conversation, in the poem that will not transmute. Meet them in order: first the compound registry, then composition, and only then, deliberately and by the protocol, a new word. Every speaker who does this honestly is one of the language's makers. There is no other kind of authority here. +Gaps remain in any language, and use will expose Phi's particular ones in journal margins, conversation, and texts that resist both translation and transmutation. Check the lexicon and compound registry first. Then weigh a transparent composition against coinage on their merits. A useful larger concept may deserve its own root even when a paraphrase is possible; a one-time exact identity may stay in an adjacent source record instead. The protocol keeps each decision visible and the shared lexicon coherent. ## The journey in the language's own words -Phi can say its own conclusion better than English can, so let it: +The final lines return to Phi: ``` thia shea ruela sano. 2SG peace path know. (You know the path of peace.) -no ha ruela thole. moli. theula philo. -IMP PROX path practice. gentle. UNIV day. -(Practice this path. Gently. Every day.) +no theula philo ha ruela moli thole. +IMP UNIV day PROX path gentle practice. +(Practise this path gently every day.) su thia thuroa. su sila thuroa. su lothea thuroa. OPT 2SG grow. OPT community grow. OPT love grow. diff --git a/manual/part6_mastery/ch24_source_material/03_exact_records_and_technical_material.md b/manual/part6_mastery/ch24_source_material/03_exact_records_and_technical_material.md index addd75ac..53311a80 100644 --- a/manual/part6_mastery/ch24_source_material/03_exact_records_and_technical_material.md +++ b/manual/part6_mastery/ch24_source_material/03_exact_records_and_technical_material.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ # Exact records and technical material -Precision now lives where the exact artifact lives. Values, units, dates, identifiers, formulas, quotations, measurements, legal wording, and medical data remain in a source record outside Phi. The record may be printed immediately before a Phi account, placed in a table, cited in a note, shown by an interface, or established in conversation. +Precision lives where the exact artifact lives. Units, formulas, and identifiers remain in a source record outside Phi. The same boundary holds for exact legal wording and clinical values. A page may place the record before a Phi account or in a table; an interface or conversation can establish the same relation through its own medium. Source record outside Phi: `body temperature: 38.7 C` @@ -11,11 +11,11 @@ PROX record PROX measure hold. ``` ``` -mia ha masue tukiro. -1SG PROX measure review. -(I review this measurement.) +mia ha masue themio. +1SG PROX measure reflect. +(I reflect on this measurement.) ``` -The Phi sentences identify the record and the act around it. They do not reproduce its digits or unit, claim that the measurement is valid, or replace the exact notation. State source, method, version, uncertainty, authority, and applicability in Phi where those relations matter; preserve the artifact itself through its own medium. +The Phi sentences identify the record and the act around it. The digits and unit remain in the source record. Phi can separately describe who made the measurement, how it was made, and whether someone accepts it for the present purpose. -This separation is not an excuse to avoid needed vocabulary. If speakers repeatedly need to discuss concentration, capacity, specification, dosage, diagnosis, jurisdiction, or another concept, the appropriate core or module vocabulary should carry that concept. Exact source values still remain separate. +The boundary does not excuse a thin lexicon. Repeated discussion may need direct core or module words for diagnosis, dosage, capacity, or another stable concept. The exact value and source notation remain separate even after the concept has a Phi name. diff --git a/manual/part6_mastery/ch24_source_material/04_translation_and_responsibility.md b/manual/part6_mastery/ch24_source_material/04_translation_and_responsibility.md index cbdbadaa..508b443a 100644 --- a/manual/part6_mastery/ch24_source_material/04_translation_and_responsibility.md +++ b/manual/part6_mastery/ch24_source_material/04_translation_and_responsibility.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ # Translation and responsibility -Separate presentation makes three acts visible: preserving a source, translating or paraphrasing it, and analyzing it. None guarantees the others. A faithful source copy may remain misunderstood; a useful Phi paraphrase may omit source distinctions; an analysis may challenge the source without changing its wording. +Separate presentation makes three acts visible: preserving a source, translating or paraphrasing it, and analysing it. A faithful source copy may remain misunderstood. A useful Phi paraphrase may omit a distinction, while an analysis may challenge the source without changing its wording. Source statement outside Phi: `The device is safe.` @@ -20,4 +20,4 @@ shia shola ha keli shurano nai sholo to haolu. (They said, "This device is safe.") ``` -Do not present the Phi translation as the original wording, and do not assume that carrying the source proves approval, truth, applicability, or understanding. When identity, testimony, law, medicine, science, or a tradition-specific concept depends on source form, keep that form separately available and state what the Phi account does and does not claim. +Label the Phi passage as a translation so it cannot be mistaken for the original wording. Keeping the source available preserves its identity without approving or validating its claim. That separation matters whenever testimony or technical practice depends on exact wording. Law, medicine, science, and tradition-specific material supply common cases. diff --git a/project/content_vocabulary_coverage.md b/project/content_vocabulary_coverage.md index 7a0c9b93..56ee97f9 100644 --- a/project/content_vocabulary_coverage.md +++ b/project/content_vocabulary_coverage.md @@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ Work package states in the next table use the [roadmap status vocabulary](roadma | Medical course, transmission, and treatment response | **DONE** | Five inherited Medical module adjectives now use the target prose contract. Course, transmission potential, immune protection, and sourced advice remain distinct without adding a root. | | Base-first sequencing | **DONE** | The inherited base queue is now at zero. The remaining prose migration belongs entirely to optional-module vocabulary. | | Module content prose migration | **DONE** | All eight learning paths are complete. The final Work, Craft, and Repair pass migrates sixteen inherited entries without adding a root. Every base and module entry now follows the same prose contract, voice, coverage gate, and validation standard. | -| Post-migration active-corpus retrofit | **IN PROGRESS** | Fifteen literary passes complete the shelf, the drafted Phi book is current through chapter 7, and manual Parts I through V have received contextual teaching passes. Continue at Part VI, then the rest of the manual, primer, pamphlets, and current documents before returning to the book. | +| Post-migration active-corpus retrofit | **IN PROGRESS** | Fifteen literary passes complete the shelf, the drafted Phi book is current through chapter 7, and manual Parts I through VI have received contextual teaching passes. Continue at Part VII, then the primer, pamphlets, and current documents before returning to the book. | | Core speech and conversation | **DONE** | Fourteen inherited base verbs now use the target prose contract. Their speech distinctions remain covered, while a direct verb for meeting another person has its own open decision. | | Knowledge, understanding, belief, and memory | **DONE** | Six inherited base verbs now use the target prose contract. Knowledge, comprehension, belief, memory, forgetting, and recognition remain distinct; losing or misplacing a held thing no longer hides among them. | | Attention, observation, reflection, and imagination | **DONE** | Eight inherited base verbs now use the target prose contract. Directed attention, observation, reflection, contemplation, meditation, intuition, imagination, and dreaming remain distinct, and base `mewali` now names sustained interest. | @@ -1710,4 +1710,4 @@ The gate applies only to content vocabulary. Phi's closed grammar remains closed ## Resume point -The decision queue is closed. The register holds 49 implemented groups and 110 compositional decisions. It also preserves 29 deferrals with return conditions, 43 source boundaries, and 4 deliberate refusals; no candidate is open or accepted but unfinished. All eight module paths and all 1,275 lexicon entries follow the target prose contract. Fifteen literary retrofits complete the shelf, the drafted Phi book is current through chapter 7, and manual Parts I through V have completed their teaching-corpus passes without a new lexical decision. Resume SEM-09D at `manual/part6_mastery/` before chapter 8. A passage changes only when expanded vocabulary genuinely improves it; changing English lexicon prose alone is not a reason to reopen Phi text. +The decision queue is closed. The register holds 49 implemented groups and 110 compositional decisions. It also preserves 29 deferrals with return conditions, 43 source boundaries, and 4 deliberate refusals; no candidate is open or accepted but unfinished. All eight module paths and all 1,275 lexicon entries follow the target prose contract. Fifteen literary retrofits complete the shelf, the drafted Phi book is current through chapter 7, and manual Parts I through VI have completed their teaching-corpus passes without a new lexical decision. Resume SEM-09D at `manual/part7_reference/` before chapter 8. A passage changes only when expanded vocabulary genuinely improves it; changing English lexicon prose alone is not a reason to reopen Phi text. diff --git a/project/deferred_questions.md b/project/deferred_questions.md index 1e33b103..0a33b9d2 100644 --- a/project/deferred_questions.md +++ b/project/deferred_questions.md @@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ The workflow gives every new or revised entry a separate Humanizer pass and chec Articulatory notes follow the word through the mouth and describe breath, contact, release, stress, and hiatus accurately. Sound symbolism has a narrower optional role: it may preserve a genuine Phi-specific association, but it cannot turn a syllable into a hidden morpheme or treat a phoneme's meaning as universal. -The completed lexicon audit worked in `vocabulary/`, the canonical source, and regenerated every dependent reference. [`documents/validation/vocabulary_prose_coverage.json`](../documents/validation/vocabulary_prose_coverage.json) records 1,275 target entries with no legacy, partial, or dual remainder. The contextual retrofit now checks active Phi against that finished vocabulary. The literary shelf, drafted book, and manual Parts I through V are current; work resumes at manual Part VI before the primer, pamphlets, and current documents. +The completed lexicon audit worked in `vocabulary/`, the canonical source, and regenerated every dependent reference. [`documents/validation/vocabulary_prose_coverage.json`](../documents/validation/vocabulary_prose_coverage.json) records 1,275 target entries with no legacy, partial, or dual remainder. The contextual retrofit now checks active Phi against that finished vocabulary. The literary shelf, drafted book, and manual Parts I through VI are current; work resumes at manual Part VII before the primer, pamphlets, and current documents. ### Lexical relations between content words diff --git a/project/handoff/README.md b/project/handoff/README.md index e6ddccda..e80f79d9 100644 --- a/project/handoff/README.md +++ b/project/handoff/README.md @@ -20,15 +20,15 @@ Do not use `archive/` as current evidence. It preserves history, including appro ## Where the work stopped -SEM-09B and SEM-09C are complete. D045 through D052 migrated all eight module learning paths, and all 1,275 lexicon entries are target-shaped. There are no legacy, partial, or dual entries. SEM-09D is in progress: fifteen literary passes complete the shelf, the drafted Phi book is current through chapter 7, and manual Parts I through V have received teaching passes. Part I repairs the beginner's conceptual and conversational foundation. Part II brings the philosophy and learning chapters under the evidence contract. Part III brings pronunciation and writing-mode teaching under the current sound canon. Part IV brings all fifty-three grammar lessons under the closed inventories, current lexical meanings, and source-provenance rules. Part V restores the exact scopes and orders of coordination, discourse marking, clause frames, and relative clauses; D054 confirms that every `lila` purpose frame precedes the action it explains. None of the five passes found a lexical gap. Part IV uses one optional Work root only where the exchange chapter labels it and supplies a base alternative; Part V uses base and function vocabulary throughout. +SEM-09B and SEM-09C are complete. D045 through D052 migrated all eight module learning paths, and all 1,275 lexicon entries are target-shaped. There are no legacy, partial, or dual entries. SEM-09D is in progress: fifteen literary passes complete the shelf, the drafted Phi book is current through chapter 7, and manual Parts I through VI have received teaching passes. Part I repairs the beginner's conceptual and conversational foundation. Part II brings the philosophy and learning chapters under the evidence contract. Part III brings pronunciation and writing-mode teaching under the current sound canon. Part IV brings all fifty-three grammar lessons under the closed inventories, current lexical meanings, and source-provenance rules. Part V restores the exact scopes and orders of coordination, discourse marking, clause frames, and relative clauses; D054 corrects purpose order, and D055 enforces modifier-first structure across the active corpus. Part VI repairs social-force claims, transmutation method, measured practice, completed-vocabulary use, and exact source handling. None of the six passes found a lexical gap. Part IV uses one labelled optional Work root with a base alternative, Part VI does the same for Commons `kowela`, and the other reviewed teaching stays in base and function vocabulary. The execution sequence is settled: 1. The literary shelf and Phi book are current through chapter 7. -2. Resume SEM-09D at manual Part VI, then continue through the rest of the manual, primer, pamphlets, and current documents. +2. Resume SEM-09D at manual Part VII, then continue through the primer, pamphlets, and current documents. 3. Return to the Phi book at chapter 8 after that sweep. -The immediate task is `manual/part6_mastery/`. Check every translation, transmutation, dialogue, practice, and fluency claim against current canon and the completed lexicon, and keep general examples in base vocabulary unless a lesson explicitly earns a module term. +The immediate task is `manual/part7_reference/`. Distinguish maintained introductions, compound and sample-text references, and module speaker chapters from generated lexicon views. Preserve approved shared furniture, and keep each module term inside the learning path that earns it. ## The maintainer's working contract diff --git a/project/handoff/current_state.md b/project/handoff/current_state.md index c95440d2..481b22d3 100644 --- a/project/handoff/current_state.md +++ b/project/handoff/current_state.md @@ -1,12 +1,12 @@ # Current state -This snapshot was first assembled after pull request #418 merged on 17 July 2026 and has been refreshed through D054, the fifteenth SEM-09D literary retrofit, the drafted-book pass, chapter 7, and the manual Parts I through V teaching passes. Its counts describe the current tracked work; Git history remains the source for branch and merge identifiers. +This snapshot was first assembled after pull request #418 merged on 17 July 2026 and has been refreshed through D055, the fifteenth SEM-09D literary retrofit, the drafted-book pass, chapter 7, and the manual Parts I through VI teaching passes. Its counts describe the current tracked work; Git history remains the source for branch and merge identifiers. ## Active execution sequence The literary shelf and Phi book are current through chapter 7. The execution sequence is now: -1. Resume SEM-09D at manual Part VI, then continue through the rest of the manual, primer, pamphlets, and current documents. +1. Resume SEM-09D at manual Part VII, then continue through the primer, pamphlets, and current documents. 2. Return to PED-08 at chapter 8 after that sweep. D044 completed the base-first boundary, and D045 through D052 completed all eight learning paths in their historical order. The full migration has one editorial judgement and voice. SEM-09D began with Schleicher's fable. That pilot preserved every Phi line after checking later base roots and optional terms, while D053 repaired `kawhera` and `pilora` after their target prose proved narrower than their validated animal uses. The second pass replaced three older circumlocutions in *The North Wind and the Sun* with `mesatu` (try), `komeri` (forehead), and `phesari` (flee) in both the translation and transmutation. The third replaced four detours in the Metta Sutta with `sheraki` (search), `tupeka` (burden), `rinu` (want), and `huwa` (weak). The fourth leaves both UDHR Article 1 renderings intact and identifies `remo` as thinking rather than a dedicated rational faculty. The fifth repairs Babel's physical joining, the tower's top, the builders' wish for renown, imagined action, and punitive scattering without adding a root. The sixth restores reverence, perception, change, and verse in the Heart Sutra. It also removes a quantitative misuse of `thenoi` and keeps physical `whalo` out of the English "great" homonym. The seventh brings `phomila`, `lioru`, `lima`, and `mesatu` into *The Prophet, On Children*. The eighth gives the Tao Te Ching translation `kowanu`, `monaki`, and direct `kethua`; both renderings distinguish `lioru`, life, and state completed withering through `ki kureno`. The ninth revises seventeen Solarpunk units, uses all eight modules, and removes technical vocabulary from general solutions, human ability, social power, and ordinary living. The tenth replaces unadorned `mueli` with simple `siloma` in *The Little Prince* and uses perfective `ki` for the bond whose result still holds. The eleventh preserves the Ring Verse refusal's 12 base and function forms while bringing its account of dominion into line with the completed Commons and Systems distinctions. The twelfth changes 46 units in *The Velveteen Rabbit*, separates search from finding and wear from age, and brings exact household and bodily words into the nursery without changing Williams's source witness. The thirteenth changes 29 units in *News from Nowhere* chapter 1, separates authority from guidance and representation from thought, and brings direct words for coercion, winter, wear, waking, and observation into Morris's first night without changing his source witness. The fourteenth now changes 57 units in chapter 2, adds direct tide and service to its earlier repairs, and preserves every Morris line. The fifteenth changes 46 units in chapter 3, gives the house and breakfast direct household language, gives the weaver his craft terms, and preserves all 245 Morris lines. The drafted-book pass preserves thirteen of fifteen fenced examples, revises two in the cold open, corrects the account of `wia` and transmutation, and aligns the schema discussion with the completed lexicon contract. The first teaching pass reviews all nine Part I files, corrects determinist and universal claims, replaces obsolete sound lore with current articulation, and rebuilds the beginner exchange without adding a root or module term. The second reviews all nineteen Part II files, preserves the two current sound essays, and repairs the remaining chapters' cultural, phonesthetic, grammatical, social, and learning claims without adding a root or module term. @@ -15,7 +15,9 @@ The third teaching pass reviews all eleven Part III files. It preserves the curr The fourth teaching pass reviews all fifty-three Part IV files. It restores the closed particle inventories and their scope, removes psychological guarantees from word order, repairs noun, numeral, pronoun, tense, aspect, voice, modality, and evidential teaching, and finds no lexical gap. One optional Work word appears only in an explicitly labelled comparison with its base description. The pass also reconciles the canon account of ceremony, ritual, festival, and source-bound named rites. -The fifth teaching pass reviews all sixteen Part V files. It repairs coordination and discourse scope, restores one modifier-first order across all five clause relators, corrects direct and reported speech, keeps `rena` in every headless relative, and finds no lexical gap or module need. The complementizer reference now shows a genuinely headless relative phrase. D054 carries the `lila` correction through sixteen literary attestations, the function-word entry, reference material, and a validator regression; the separate freedom construction is unchanged. +The fifth teaching pass reviews all sixteen Part V files. It repairs coordination and discourse scope, restores one modifier-first order across all five clause relators, corrects direct and reported speech, keeps `rena` in every headless relative, and finds no lexical gap or module need. The complementizer reference now shows a genuinely headless relative phrase. D054 carries the `lila` correction through sixteen literary attestations, the function-word entry, reference material, and a validator regression; the separate freedom construction is unchanged. D055 then audits the full active corpus and makes modifier-first order an explicit repository-wide invariant. + +The sixth teaching pass reviews all twenty Part VI files. It separates courtesy from consent and power, brings the transmutation method under the completed lexicon, removes clock quotas and invented community evidence from living practice, and keeps exact source forms outside Phi syntax. Direct frog, jump, sound, dusk, wanting, and dream vocabulary repair stale workarounds. No lexical question remains open; the one optional Commons term is labelled and paired with base `sila lona`. ## Lexicon migration counts @@ -48,7 +50,7 @@ The latest completed prose batch is D052, Work, Craft, and Repair. It migrated s | Open | 0 | | Accepted but not implemented | 0 | -The latest development decision is D054 in [`project/development_log.md`](../development_log.md). Check the live log before assigning the next identifier. +The latest development decision is D055 in [`project/development_log.md`](../development_log.md). Check the live log before assigning the next identifier. ## Base queue complete @@ -85,7 +87,7 @@ All eight profiles already have canonical JSON membership, a generated module in The literary shelf has completed its full review against the current lexicon. It contains nine close translations and eleven transmutations; seven works have both. *News from Nowhere* is one 32-chapter work with the first three chapters transmuted and reviewed. The current review record is [`documents/evaluation/active_text_corpus_review.md`](../../documents/evaluation/active_text_corpus_review.md). -SEM-09D is in progress. Fifteen literary passes complete the shelf, and all three drafted *News from Nowhere* chapters are among them. The Phi book is current through chapter 7. Manual Parts I through V are reviewed without a lexical gap; Part IV uses one explicitly labelled optional Work term, while Part V stays entirely in base and function vocabulary. The remaining active-corpus retrofit resumes at manual Part VI, followed by the rest of the manual, primer, pamphlets, and current documents. A Phi passage changes only when the current form is more faithful or natural there. A transparent composition stays when its parts still teach or express the thought better, and every changed sentence and dependency receives validation. +SEM-09D is in progress. Fifteen literary passes complete the shelf, and all three drafted *News from Nowhere* chapters are among them. The Phi book is current through chapter 7. Manual Parts I through VI are reviewed without a lexical gap. Parts IV and VI each use one explicitly labelled optional term with a base alternative; the other reviewed teaching stays in base and function vocabulary. The remaining active-corpus retrofit resumes at manual Part VII, followed by the primer, pamphlets, and current documents. A Phi passage changes only when the current form is more faithful or natural there. A transparent composition stays when its parts still teach or express the thought better, and every changed sentence and dependency receives validation. The shelf's method distinction remains settled: @@ -126,7 +128,7 @@ Citation work performed in earlier conversations is not preserved as a complete | Native glyph mode | Parked | Daniel chooses to resume exploration of Phi's one intended native script. | | Spoken source material and code-switching | Open design question | Live conversational examples make the current outside-syntax boundary inadequate. Do not reintroduce guest or exact frames. | | Sexual and reproductive anatomy | Queued scenario-led vocabulary effort | Begin as its own respectful corpus and vocabulary project, not as an unnoticed extension of Medical vocabulary. | -| Legacy vocabulary prose audit | Complete; contextual retrofit in progress | D044 completed the base queue, and D045 through D052 completed all eight module learning paths. The literary shelf, drafted book, and manual Parts I through V are current; the remaining teaching and project-document sweep begins at manual Part VI. | +| Legacy vocabulary prose audit | Complete; contextual retrofit in progress | D044 completed the base queue, and D045 through D052 completed all eight module learning paths. The literary shelf, drafted book, and manual Parts I through VI are current; the remaining teaching and project-document sweep begins at manual Part VII. | | Lexical relations between content words | Parked | The explorer or project needs curated related-word navigation strongly enough to add and maintain a schema field. | | Tengwar renderer verification | Parked | Tengwar work resumes or approaches publication status. | | Solarpunk community engagement | Open strategic question | Daniel is ready to offer Phi outside its repository and decide what a healthy invitation looks like. | diff --git a/project/roadmap.md b/project/roadmap.md index 8900af56..04700e66 100644 --- a/project/roadmap.md +++ b/project/roadmap.md @@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ An item is not **DONE** merely because a protocol, prompt, or script exists. A l | SEM-01 | **DONE** | Establish the coinage quality protocol: compare composition and coinage, choose freely, then require complete semantics, schema, sound, examples, and references. | Development protocol and eight completed vocabulary passes | Apply the same quality standard without treating it as an external burden of proof. | | SEM-01A | **DONE** | Develop practice and domain profiles as optional lexical organization under one grammar. | Eight established profiles with 261 optional roots, 393 memberships, generated indexing, speaker chapters, and sixteen base words established through profile passes | Revise an established profile through use, or add another only when its organization would help. | | SEM-01B | **DONE** | Record the intended profile catalogue. | `documents/modules/README.md`; eight active profiles and preserved future explorations | Add another profile when its organizational purpose is clear; no audience or external evidence gate is required. | -| SEM-01C | **IN PROGRESS** | Revisit active Phi texts after the current module set and classification reviews are complete. | The [active text corpus review](../documents/evaluation/active_text_corpus_review.md) records completed reviews of all thirteen literary works, fifteen post-migration literary retrofits, and the drafted Phi book through chapter 7; the [active teaching corpus review](../documents/evaluation/active_teaching_corpus_review.md) records manual Parts I through V | Continue at manual Part VI, then the primer, pamphlet, and current-document sweep. Preserve each work's declared method and every composition that remains the better Phi expression. | +| SEM-01C | **IN PROGRESS** | Revisit active Phi texts after the current module set and classification reviews are complete. | The [active text corpus review](../documents/evaluation/active_text_corpus_review.md) records completed reviews of all thirteen literary works, fifteen post-migration literary retrofits, and the drafted Phi book through chapter 7; the [active teaching corpus review](../documents/evaluation/active_teaching_corpus_review.md) records manual Parts I through VI | Continue at manual Part VII, then the primer, pamphlet, and current-document sweep. Preserve each work's declared method and every composition that remains the better Phi expression. | | SEM-01D | **DONE** | Assess genuine multi-module vocabulary membership after all current modules are established. | Complete overlap assessment; 77 shared roots, 137 roots with one module, thirteen promoted to base vocabulary, regenerated indexes, and corrected profile and speaker counts | Reopen the assessment when later vocabulary or sustained use exposes another genuine learning-path overlap. | | SEM-01E | **DONE** | Review base vocabulary for older roots whose lexical center belongs in an existing module. | Complete base-placement assessment; thirty roots receive 35 memberships, 789 content roots remain base, and all generated and speaker-facing counts agree | Reopen placement when new modules give an older base word a genuine specialist home or when use shows that a classified word belongs in general study. | | SEM-02 | **PARTIAL** | Map weak modern domains: technology, science, government, law, work, disability, reproductive health, sexuality, and institutions. | Assessment, survey, eight established vocabulary modules, two access scenarios, and work and care scenarios | Test the Work, Medical, Accessibility, and Household modules beyond their source scenarios, inhabited-place heat and cooling, and a standing institution outside councils while keeping sensitive domains scenario-gated. | @@ -178,11 +178,11 @@ An item is not **DONE** merely because a protocol, prompt, or script exists. A l | SEM-08C | **DONE** | Replace 24 Systems and Shared Infrastructure forms. | Completed ledger scope and phonetic-neighbor baseline | Reopen only if an active use of an old form is found. | | SEM-08D | **DONE** | Replace 30 Ecological Systems and Material Life forms. | Completed ledger scope, scenarios, profile, and generated reference | Reopen only if an active use of an old form is found. | | SEM-08E | **DONE** | Replace 29 Commons and Collective Governance forms and close the migration. | Completed ledger scope; validator has no long-form exception | Reopen only if an active use of an old form is found. | -| SEM-09 | **PARTIAL** | Migrate inherited vocabulary prose to the target contract and revisit the active corpus in context. | D017, the target JSON Schema, field-aware explorer, D052 with all 1,275 entries target-shaped, D053, fifteen contextual literary retrofits, the drafted-book review, and manual Parts I through V | Complete SEM-09D from manual Part VI onward. Change active Phi only where the present lexicon improves fidelity or naturalness. | +| SEM-09 | **PARTIAL** | Migrate inherited vocabulary prose to the target contract and revisit the active corpus in context. | D017, the target JSON Schema, field-aware explorer, D052 with all 1,275 entries target-shaped, D053, fifteen contextual literary retrofits, the drafted-book review, and manual Parts I through VI | Complete SEM-09D from manual Part VII onward. Change active Phi only where the present lexicon improves fidelity or naturalness. | | SEM-09A | **DONE** | Apply a semantic coverage gate to content prose batches and preserve every noticed lexical decision. | `project/content_vocabulary_coverage.md` audits every completed batch; `project/content_vocabulary_decisions.json` has no open or accepted candidate; D020 through D052 record the resulting additions, compositions, deferrals, source boundaries, and refusals. | Keep the gate for future content-vocabulary work so a newly noticed question receives an ID before its batch closes. | | SEM-09B | **DONE** | Complete target-prose migration for base content vocabulary. | D044 leaves all 884 base content entries target-shaped and no base entry legacy-shaped | Reopen a completed entry only for a real semantic, factual, voice, or corpus problem. | | SEM-09C | **DONE** | Complete target-prose migration for module content vocabulary. | D045 through D052 complete all eight learning paths; Work, Craft, and Repair closes the final 16 entries without adding a root | Reopen an entry only for a real semantic, factual, voice, or corpus problem. | -| SEM-09D | **IN PROGRESS** | Retrofit active Phi passages after the full vocabulary-prose migration. | Fifteen literary retrofits complete the shelf, the drafted Phi book is current, and manual Parts I through V are reviewed without adding a root | Continue at manual Part VI, then work through the remaining manual, primer, pamphlets, and current documents. | +| SEM-09D | **IN PROGRESS** | Retrofit active Phi passages after the full vocabulary-prose migration. | Fifteen literary retrofits complete the shelf, the drafted Phi book is current, and manual Parts I through VI are reviewed without adding a root | Continue at manual Part VII, then work through the primer, pamphlets, and current documents. | ### Default coinage checklist @@ -251,7 +251,7 @@ This phase is adjacent to the linguistic improvement plan and follows the order ## Current execution sequence -The three-syllable lexical migration, literary-shelf review, recovered vocabulary decisions, and all base and module prose migrations are complete. Fifteen contextual literary passes complete the active shelf, the drafted Phi book is current through chapter 7, and manual Parts I through V have received teaching-corpus passes. SEM-09D now continues at manual Part VI before moving through the primer, pamphlets, and current documents. A transparent composition stays when it remains better Phi. +The three-syllable lexical migration, literary-shelf review, recovered vocabulary decisions, and all base and module prose migrations are complete. Fifteen contextual literary passes complete the active shelf, the drafted Phi book is current through chapter 7, and manual Parts I through VI have received teaching-corpus passes. SEM-09D now continues at manual Part VII before moving through the primer, pamphlets, and current documents. A transparent composition stays when it remains better Phi. ### Completed work package 0: Three-syllable lexical migration @@ -273,7 +273,7 @@ All 112 replacements preserve the vocabulary schema and active uses under forms 1. D044 completed the base queue with every base content entry target-shaped. 2. D045 through D052 completed all eight module learning paths, with every established membership preserved and every entry target-shaped. -3. The literary shelf, drafted book, and manual Parts I through V are current. Continue at manual Part VI, then inspect active Phi in the rest of the manual, primer, pamphlets, and current documents. Replace an older workaround only when the completed vocabulary improves fidelity or naturalness in that exact passage. +3. The literary shelf, drafted book, and manual Parts I through VI are current. Continue at manual Part VII, then inspect active Phi in the primer, pamphlets, and current documents. Replace an older workaround only when the completed vocabulary improves fidelity or naturalness in that exact passage. 4. Record every newly noticed question before calling its prose work complete. 5. Refresh the coverage report and generated references after every batch, then run the standalone validator and site build.