otivm/docs/training/chunking/VOCABULARY-STANDARD-0001.md

# 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

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## 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.