diff --git a/project/handoff/README.md b/project/handoff/README.md index 6fd1c880..e82d698e 100644 --- a/project/handoff/README.md +++ b/project/handoff/README.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ # Phi continuation handoff -This directory is the transfer package for continuing Phi after 17 July 2026. It was first assembled from the live repository after pull request #418 merged and is current through pull request #617 on 27 July 2026. It records the current position, the working method, the tools, and the maintainer's standing instructions that are easy to lose when a conversation ends. +This directory is the transfer package for continuing Phi after 17 July 2026. It was first assembled from the live repository after pull request #418 merged and is current through pull request #619 on 27 July 2026. It records the current position, the working method, the tools, and the maintainer's standing instructions that are easy to lose when a conversation ends. This package is a map, not a new authority. When anything here disagrees with a live source, follow the authority order in [`canon.md`](../../canon.md), repair this package, and record a language decision where the disagreement is substantive. @@ -38,6 +38,8 @@ The maintainer's own front-to-back read of the finished book followed on 27 July That read also closed the conflation sweep's last open item. The weaver's shade of anxiousness in *News from Nowhere* chapter 3 had rendered its degree with the size adjective `thiku`; the maintainer ruled it attenuation, so `la` now lowers the anxiety and the look keeps its own shape. +*News from Nowhere* has reached chapter 4 of 32. "A Market by the Way" follows Morris through six movements and 121 aligned passages. It registers `wisola lokue`, exchange-place, and rebuilds the English "poor/poorly" joke around a genuine Phi ambiguity in `huwa`, weak. Its preflight also closed the two questions that had survived in this handoff: the three-syllable lexical ceiling and the novel's use of the full vocabulary. + One assessment was delivered and declined in the same span. Nothing compares a Phi line quoted in the manual against the shelf text it names, which is how chapter 22's misquoted Metta Sutta line survived. A measurement found 14 exact quotations among 1,573 teaching-corpus Phi lines, and a prototype detector caught the real defect while flagging nine lines in all. The maintainer ruled it not worth building, since the manual is close to finished and future additions will be texts. Do not raise it again unprompted. No content or language work is commissioned. The book's title remains The Phi Book for now, by the maintainer's ruling, with *A Language You Cannot Hurry* and *Announce, Then Deliver* on record as candidates. The bibliography's citation style is uniform with DOIs intact, and the whole-book revision read is complete, so further revision waits on the maintainer's own reading of the finished book. The maintained future-work ledger has five unfinished entries, all named in [`current_state.md`](current_state.md) and [`project/deferred_questions.md`](../deferred_questions.md). @@ -52,6 +54,8 @@ The following habits came from direct maintainer corrections. Treat them as stan - Never let a noticed lexical gap vanish into conversation. Give it a decision ID before closing the batch, even when the decision is compositional, deferred, source-bound, or declined. - Keep base vocabulary ordinary and broadly useful. Specialized words may belong to several modules; the `modules` field is an array for a reason. - Modules add vocabulary only. Phi's grammar and particle system are complete, and no module may add syntax, parsing rules, or incompatible constructions. +- Lexical words have no more than three syllables, including module vocabulary. Productive names alone may use a legal four-syllable form. +- Every voice in *News from Nowhere* may use the full vocabulary, including optional modules. Module membership limits what a general learner is expected to study; it does not divide the novel's speakers into lexical registers. - Peace linguistics is a design boundary, not decoration. Do not introduce generic conflict or direct combat vocabulary, weapon-centred framing, domination terms, or combat metaphors into Phi-authored material. Phi must still name danger, harm, coercion, injury, testimony, protection, accountability, redress, and repair. - Exact clock units, physical units, money language, and industrial measurement are settled refusals. Read [`documents/design/psychological_violence_of_measurement.md`](../../documents/design/psychological_violence_of_measurement.md) before working near time, quantity, distance, weight, or exchange. - Point out accidental English homonyms whenever they appear in a proposed Phi form or an existing form under review. diff --git a/project/handoff/current_state.md b/project/handoff/current_state.md index 0905d3ce..f6a26ddd 100644 --- a/project/handoff/current_state.md +++ b/project/handoff/current_state.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ # Current state -This snapshot was first assembled after pull request #418 merged on 17 July 2026 and is current through pull request #617 on 27 July 2026. It covers D055, the completed SEM-09D corpus retrofit, the finished book, and the practice-complete pamphlet shelf. It also records the writing-system consolidation that made Tengwar Phi's sole alternative to romanization, the four renderer-led shelf identities, and the complete entrance sequence for Kia, the Short Road, and the Phi Book contents page. 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 is current through pull request #619 on 27 July 2026. It covers D055 and the completed SEM-09D corpus retrofit. The finished book, the practice-complete pamphlet shelf, and the first four chapters of *News from Nowhere* are current here as well. It also records the writing-system consolidation that made Tengwar Phi's sole alternative to romanization, the four renderer-led shelf identities, and the complete entrance sequence for Kia, the Short Road, and the Phi Book contents page. Its counts describe the current tracked work; Git history remains the source for branch and merge identifiers. ## Active execution sequence @@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ The shelf's method distinction remains settled: Chapter 4, "A Market by the Way", now joins the sequence. Its six movements carry 121 non-overlapping source citations and cover every source word except the chapter heading. The chapter follows the restored creek into Hammersmith market, gives Dick his theatre doors, and rebuilds the "poor/poorly" joke around contextual `huwa`, weak. Guest leaves the relevant pressure unnamed, Guide hears bodily weakness, and only the clarification names insufficient resources. No root was needed. The repeated market reading registers `wisola lokue`, exchange-place. -The maintainer has settled the vocabulary ruling for the novel: every voice may use the full vocabulary, including optional modules, whenever the concept fits. The narrator does not receive a broader lexicon than the future people. The chapter 4 preflight also checked chapters 1 through 3 against the current retired-form and four-syllable migration lists and found no surviving form. Lexicon words remain capped at three syllables; four syllables belong only to productive names. +The maintainer has settled the vocabulary ruling for the novel: every voice may use the full vocabulary, including optional modules, whenever the concept fits. The narrator and the future people share one lexicon. The chapter 4 preflight checked chapters 1 through 3 for retired lexical forms and for four-syllable tokens mistakenly left in lexical use; none remained, and chapter 4 validates under the same rule. Canon's three-syllable ceiling covers module roots too. A fourth syllable is available only under the productive-name charter. Future work on the novel begins with `.claude/skills/transmute/SKILL.md`, the guide written from chapter 1's failures. It applies to one repaired line as firmly as to a new chapter. Read every existing chapter end to end before drafting. The conventions can be listed, but their pace lives in the chapters. diff --git a/project/handoff/language_and_voice.md b/project/handoff/language_and_voice.md index 685c006a..af948348 100644 --- a/project/handoff/language_and_voice.md +++ b/project/handoff/language_and_voice.md @@ -139,6 +139,8 @@ A transmutation lets the source pass through Phi's five pillars and conceptual h The literary shelf prefers transmutation because it preserves Phi's own heart. Paired close translations demonstrate that the language can carry a source closely and make the divergence visible. Not every long work needs both. *News from Nowhere* remains a transmutation-only 32-chapter project unless Daniel changes the plan. +In *News from Nowhere*, the narrator and the future people share the full vocabulary, including optional modules. Any new root keeps the three-syllable lexical ceiling; only a productive name may reach four syllables. + ## The five pillars The five named commitments are Solarpunk, secular Buddhist philosophy, Art Nouveau aesthetics, peace linguistics, and pre-industrial wisdom. They guide choices but do not require a `pillars` field on every word or an equal paragraph in every text. diff --git a/project/handoff/repository_workflow.md b/project/handoff/repository_workflow.md index cc2b79ac..f6e12075 100644 --- a/project/handoff/repository_workflow.md +++ b/project/handoff/repository_workflow.md @@ -220,7 +220,7 @@ diff -u documents/validation/phonetic_neighbors_baseline.txt /tmp/phonetic_neigh python3 scripts/audit_phonetic_neighbors.py --kind function --prompts 40 --seed 202601 ``` -The committed baseline had 250 pairs after #418. Its attestation counts track the active corpus, so the generated file changes whenever cited examples change, even when no word form does; regenerate it unconditionally before any corpus pull request and commit the result when it differs. Distance scores are prompts for listening work, not proof that two words must change. +The committed baseline tracks corpus attestations as well as neighbour pairs. Chapter 4 of *News from Nowhere* showed why every corpus pull request must regenerate it: no word form changed and the pair set stayed fixed, but the added attestations changed and reordered much of the file. Commit the generated result whenever it differs. Distance scores are prompts for listening work, not proof that two words must change. ## Productive-name utility