design: cross-language tone label vocabulary (labels must survive translation) #19

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opened 2026-04-06 13:11:44 -07:00 by pyr0ball · 0 comments

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Tone labels like 'slightly sarcastic' or 'warmly impatient' are English-centric and may lose precision in translation.

Design task:

Define the canonical Linnet label vocabulary (N labels)
For each label, identify translation risk: does the concept exist in target languages?
For high-risk labels: define fallback labels or accept graceful degradation
Annotate labels that should NOT be translated (e.g. proper nouns, Elcor-format labels)
Document in docs/label-vocabulary.md

This is a pre-implementation design task. Output is a vocabulary doc, not code.

Tone labels like 'slightly sarcastic' or 'warmly impatient' are English-centric and may lose precision in translation. Design task: - Define the canonical Linnet label vocabulary (N labels) - For each label, identify translation risk: does the concept exist in target languages? - For high-risk labels: define fallback labels or accept graceful degradation - Annotate labels that should NOT be translated (e.g. proper nouns, Elcor-format labels) - Document in `docs/label-vocabulary.md` This is a pre-implementation design task. Output is a vocabulary doc, not code.