Correct two claims in the transmutation chapter - #615
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The anger case study quoted the Metta Sutta's ablative line in a shortened form, dropping the disjunct that names long-held heart-fire and giving the English a rendering the translation does not use. The block now matches the text it cites, and the paragraph beside it takes in the second fire. The five moves credited the Velveteen Rabbit with rendering Real as the habitual ro. Real is shewo throughout that book, whose own section is headed shewo, and every one of its twelve habitual particles marks an ordinary repeated action. The grammar-led choice it does make is the tense sequence at the transformation, where the nursery magic had already happened and toyhood ceased.
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What this does
An audit of chapter 22 against the texts it cites found two false claims. Both are corrected here. Everything else in the chapter was checked and holds.
The misquoted Metta Sutta line
The anger case study introduced the ablative
lueby showing what it called the Metta Sutta translation's line, and showed this:The line in
texts/metta_sutta.mdis longer, and its English is not that one:The chapter had dropped
sola lue laeno thimu korua thero, which carries the resentment half of Fausbøll's "let him not out of anger or resentment wish harm to another". Because the chapter's gloss line matched its own shortened Phi, the validator passed it; only a comparison against the shelf catches it. The block is now the text's own, and the paragraph after it gains a clause for the second fire, so the prose and the example describe the same line.The Velveteen Rabbit claim
The grammar-led choice listed "Real turned out to be the habitual
ro". Real isshewoin that book from beginning to end, and the section teaching it is headed## shewo — What is Real. All twelve occurrences ofroin the text mark ordinary repeated action: kept saying, used to sleep, used to dream, used to go.The text does make a grammar-led choice at exactly the moment the claim was reaching for, and it is tense and aspect rather than a lexical particle. At the transformation the nursery magic is
to ki kelu, already complete, and toyhood isto te nai, ceased. That pair replaces the false claim and keeps the example where it was.What was checked and holds
Every Phi word cited in the chapter, with its gloss, against the lexicon. Both compound registry entries,
korua theroandremo kire, plusphelu pulain the practice exercises. The claim that no Phi word is glossed angry. The numerals 47 and 214, which compose correctly and sit inside the exact range. The five Tao chapters, which are 8, 11, 17, 63, and 76. The refusal examples: contend becamemawha pilu, leader became the one who guides in the transmutation, master became coercion and exploitation, and the Ring Verse refusal became its own text. The reframes: archer, bow, and arrows became wind, tree, and living seeds; the felled tree became the tree in the great wind; the scattering of Babel became a sowing.keiroagainstruela, which matches both entries exactly. Belong throughphelu, and useful throughpo, which the Tao's own gap log records. The six syllables ofserao melothe. No retired form appears anywhere in the chapter.Validator run standalone: 1,287 entries, 0 errors, 0 warnings. The site builds, which also confirms the case study's stored structure is unchanged. The neighbor baseline moved and is committed, as expected when a cited example gains words.
Observation, not addressed here
The chapter's introduction accounts for the shelf as close translations and transmutations. The shelf now also holds four original Phi works, and the manual teaches that third method in Part VII's sample texts rather than in this chapter. The sentence "The other adapted works are transmutations" stays true, since an original is not adapted, so nothing here is false. Whether chapter 22 should name the third method is a content decision rather than a repair.