From 53616e9aaf99d718d879e5420abbeb813ee8de7a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: TheRON Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2026 14:55:03 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] initial upload --- .../chunking/VOCABULARY-STANDARD-0001.md | 637 ++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 637 insertions(+) create mode 100644 docs/training/chunking/VOCABULARY-STANDARD-0001.md diff --git a/docs/training/chunking/VOCABULARY-STANDARD-0001.md b/docs/training/chunking/VOCABULARY-STANDARD-0001.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..618c18a --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/training/chunking/VOCABULARY-STANDARD-0001.md @@ -0,0 +1,637 @@ +# VOCABULARY-STANDARD-0001 +## Roman-Visible Commercial Speech And Model Vocabulary +### Status: Draft Standard +### Layer: Training Infrastructure +### Purpose: Improve Layer 4 dialogue voice and begin defining the OTIVM model's bounded commercial vocabulary +### Repository Path: docs/training/chunking/VOCABULARY-STANDARD-0001.md + +--- + +## 0. Purpose + +This document defines the beginning of the OTIVM commercial speech vocabulary. + +The goal is not Latin translation. + +The goal is not modern English in Roman costume. + +The goal is to teach the model to express commercial reality through Roman-visible objects, pressures, bodily metaphors, social position, records, witnesses, roads, carts, coin, seals, storage, and obligation. + +A Roman-bounded model should not merely avoid modern terms. It should have its own compressed way of speaking. + +--- + +## 1. Core Principle + +Modern economic abstraction should be converted into concrete Roman-visible speech. + +Bad direction: + +```text +liquidity constraint +supply chain disruption +contractual compliance +market inefficiency +regulatory exposure +credit risk +information asymmetry +``` + +Better direction: + +```text +He owns jars, not coin. +The road has eaten the profit. +The tablet arrived old. +The seal speaks less than the carter. +His creditor's shadow reached the door first. +The cart is hired elsewhere. +The witness can carry that much, no more. +``` + +The model should learn to describe economic states through things actors can see, carry, hear, count, pledge, write, or lose. + +--- + +## 2. Speech Is Not Metadata + +Metadata may use analytical terms. + +Dialogue speech should not. + +Allowed in metadata: + +```yaml +concept_tags: + - liquidity_constraint + - stale_report + - transport_capacity + - credit_trust +``` + +Not allowed in dialogue: + +```text +"We face a liquidity constraint." +"This is a stale report." +"Transport capacity has collapsed." +``` + +Better dialogue: + +```text +"We have jars, not coin." +"The tablet is older than the road dust." +"The wheels are gone." +``` + +--- + +## 3. The Compression Rule + +Roman-style commercial speech should compress reasoning into physical or social images. + +Pattern: + +```text +abstract condition -> visible object or pressure +``` + +Examples: + +| Abstract condition | Roman-visible speech | +|---|---| +| too much visible coin | His purse walks louder than he does. | +| wealth is unsafe | Coin sleeps badly without a locked chest. | +| cash is draining away | His purse has a hole and every friend knows it. | +| debt pressure | The creditor's shadow reached the door before morning. | +| illiquid inventory | He owns jars, not coin. | +| bad transport situation | The road has eaten the profit. | +| missing cart capacity | The wheels are gone. | +| stale information | The tablet arrived old. | +| unreliable source | The word passed through too many mouths. | +| unsafe record | The tablet cannot safely say that. | +| uncertain cargo | The crate is heavier than its name. | +| hidden value | The thing is cheap only while badly named. | +| reputation risk | His name is now a jar under thin clay. | +| public praise | The steps have lowered his interest. | +| rival obstruction | Naso bought the road before the oil moved. | + +These expressions are not final canon. They show the target style. + +--- + +## 4. Primitive Object Vocabulary + +The model's commercial vocabulary should begin with objects and actions, not abstractions. + +### Objects + +```text +coin +purse +chest +tablet +seal +witness +cart +mule +road +warehouse +wall +roof +jar +amphora +crate +rope +weight +measure +gate +market +portico +yard +dust +rain +lamp +grain +oil +bronze +timber +glass +stone +``` + +### Actions + +```text +buy +sell +carry +store +seal +open +count +weigh +measure +pledge +write +witness +hire +repair +delay +ask +refuse +accuse +confirm +return +split +hold +move +settle +``` + +### Pressures + +```text +hunger +rain +delay +spoilage +debt +rivalry +shame +praise +shortage +crowd +rumor +cart scarcity +storage scarcity +buyer urgency +creditor pressure +official attention +``` + +The model should combine these before reaching for abstract terms. + +--- + +## 5. Coin Expressions + +Coin is not abstract capital. Coin is a physical and social object. + +It must be held, hidden, counted, guarded, pledged, moved, or converted. + +Useful expressions: + +```text +His purse walks louder than he does. +Coin sleeps badly without a locked chest. +A full purse makes a loud man careful. +His purse has a hole. +Coin is leaving by too many doors. +The coin cannot find a safe purse. +He has coin, but no quiet place for it. +The purse is fat and the street has eyes. +He paid in sound, not silver. +His promise rings thinner than his coin. +``` + +Training meaning: + +```text +coin_has_logistics +coin_has_visibility +coin_requires_custody +coin_can_invite_risk +coin_does_not_equal_settlement_until_recorded +``` + +--- + +## 6. Inventory Expressions + +Goods are not value until placed, moved, sold, pledged, stored, or transformed. + +Useful expressions: + +```text +He owns jars, not coin. +The oil is rich only if the road carries it. +The grain feeds rats until it finds a buyer. +The crate is heavier than its name. +The timber is too proud for roof work. +The stone is not yet a street. +The bronze was called common because someone feared its proper name. +The wall earns while the jars wait. +Unsold goods eat space. +Goods without a buyer are quiet debt. +``` + +Training meaning: + +```text +inventory_is_not_coin +goods_have_storage_cost +goods_have_transport_dependency +goods_can_have_hidden_value +value_depends_on_use_place_buyer_and_time +``` + +--- + +## 7. Road And Cart Expressions + +Transport is not background. Transport is part of value. + +Useful expressions: + +```text +The road has eaten the profit. +The wheels are gone. +A jar without wheels is a promise sitting in straw. +Naso bought the road before the oil moved. +The mule is slower than a cart but faster than an excuse. +The bridge was taken before the goods marched. +The road charges every man, even the clever one. +Dust on the road is not delivery. +A cart hired elsewhere can ruin a bargain here. +``` + +Training meaning: + +```text +transport_capacity +delay_cost +blocked_movement +replacement_cost +partial_shipment +route_dependency +``` + +--- + +## 8. Tablet, Seal, And Witness Expressions + +Records are not merely documents. They are social weapons, limits, protections, and obligations. + +Useful expressions: + +```text +The tablet cannot safely say that. +The seal speaks less than the carter. +The wax remembers what men forget. +Write only what the witness can carry. +A broken seal needs a name above it. +The account should not carry what the eyes did not see. +The tablet is a wall when trouble comes. +A witness can carry this much, no more. +The receipt is not the good. +The line in wax is thinner than a promise unless men stand beside it. +``` + +Training meaning: + +```text +recordkeeping +witness_limit +seal_status +claim_vs_seen_fact +legal_exposure +settlement_evidence +``` + +--- + +## 9. Rumor And Information Expressions + +Information is carried by people, roads, tablets, clerks, rivals, servants, and market talk. + +Useful expressions: + +```text +The tablet arrived old. +The word passed through too many mouths. +The road made the news stale. +A clerk's hand is not a buyer's purse. +Smoke is not a sale. +The baths heard it before the market did. +A rumor can move a buyer before truth arrives. +The seal is fresh, but the word is old. +The carter knows the road, not the price. +The witness saw the cart, not the bargain. +``` + +Training meaning: + +```text +stale_report +source_chain +source_motive +reported_vs_seen +confirmation_cost +hidden_true_state +actor_confidence +``` + +--- + +## 10. Reputation Expressions + +Reputation is commercially active. It changes credit, access, price, scrutiny, rivalry, and expectation. + +Useful expressions: + +```text +His name now stands in the market before he does. +The steps have lowered his interest. +Praise opened one door and painted a target on another. +A good name draws buyers and creditors alike. +His name is a jar under thin clay. +Public praise is coin until envy bites it. +A raised name has farther to fall. +Men lend more easily to a name they heard in public. +A good name creates hunger for more good service. +The crowd remembers the praise, but the rival sharpens the answer. +``` + +Training meaning: + +```text +reputation +public_praise +credit_trust +commercial_access +reputation_risk +rivalry +future_obligation +``` + +--- + +## 11. Obligation And Settlement Expressions + +Settlement is not only coin. It may involve work, pledge, repair, witness, delivery, offset, or reputation. + +Useful expressions: + +```text +It is not coin, but it is not nothing. +His hands stand where his purse is empty. +The pledge keeps him tied to the matter. +The debt has not vanished because the purse is bare. +Repair stands against part of the loss. +A promise without witness walks away easily. +Work can answer where coin is missing. +The account remains open. +A closed tablet is not always a settled matter. +A man without coin may still have labor, tools, kin, name, and shame. +``` + +Training meaning: + +```text +non_coin_settlement +pledge +partial_settlement +offset +account_closure +credit_trust +obligation +``` + +--- + +## 12. Actor Voice Use + +The same idea should sound different by actor. + +### Varro + +Concrete, disciplined, risk-aware. + +```text +No man marches the whole column because one scout saw dust. +A bridge taken first can defeat a stronger man. +Let the promise walk in front, so we do not trip over it later. +``` + +### Felix + +Sharp, opportunistic, social, profit-aware. + +```text +The thing is cheap only while badly named. +Truth arrives late. Price arrives while men argue. +A full warehouse is a purse with walls. +``` + +### Lentulus + +Status, access, public standing, patronage. + +```text +The wrong doorway costs more than a bad price. +A name heard from the steps enters rooms coin cannot. +Favor is a road, but not a free one. +``` + +### Crispus + +Procedure, enforceability, remedy. + +```text +A complaint without a name is wind. +A broken seal asks who ordered the breaking. +A witness can carry this much, no more. +``` + +### Secundus + +Practical movement, carts, labor, timing. + +```text +The wheels are gone. +The mule is slower than a cart but faster than an excuse. +Every jar uses ground until it moves. +``` + +### Chresimus + +Records, caution, accounts, evidence. + +```text +The tablet cannot safely say that. +Write what the eyes saw, not what Felix hopes. +The account remains open. +``` + +--- + +## 13. Dialogue Improvement Rule + +When revising dialogue, replace abstract explanation with object speech. + +Example weak line: + +```text +"This creates a liquidity problem." +``` + +Better: + +```text +"We have jars, not coin." +``` + +Example weak line: + +```text +"The report is uncertain because the source chain is unreliable." +``` + +Better: + +```text +"The word passed through too many mouths before it reached us." +``` + +Example weak line: + +```text +"Transport capacity is constrained." +``` + +Better: + +```text +"The wheels are gone." +``` + +Example weak line: + +```text +"The transaction is not fully settled." +``` + +Better: + +```text +"The account remains open." +``` + +--- + +## 14. Building The Model Vocabulary + +The OTIVM vocabulary should develop as a controlled lexicon. + +Each entry should eventually support: + +```yaml +token: transport_capacity +roman_visible_terms: + - cart + - mule + - road + - wheel + - porter + - load +common_phrases: + - The wheels are gone. + - A jar without wheels is a promise sitting in straw. +forbidden_modern_terms: + - logistics bottleneck + - supply chain constraint +dialogue_domains: + - commerce + - military_supply + - legal_dispute +``` + +The lexicon should not replace prose. It should guide prose. + +--- + +## 15. Success Condition + +This vocabulary standard is functioning correctly when OTIVM dialogue stops sounding like modern economic explanation and begins sounding like Roman-visible reasoning. + +A successful model response should prefer: + +```text +The road has eaten the profit. +``` + +over: + +```text +The transportation cost eliminated the margin. +``` + +It should prefer: + +```text +The tablet arrived old. +``` + +over: + +```text +The information is stale. +``` + +It should prefer: + +```text +He owns jars, not coin. +``` + +over: + +```text +His assets are illiquid. +``` + +The purpose is not ornament. The purpose is ontology. + +The model learns what kind of world it inhabits by the words it is allowed to use.