Repository path: workshop/experiments/E-20260808b-discordant-marking/materials/wrong-table.md · rendered 2026-09-09

WRONG — the direction-reversed control, frozen before dispatch

Six GARNETT items, rewritten so that the standing the wording claims is reversed while the propositional content is held as close to fixed as the reversal allows. Written by the lead, which knows the hypothesis; this is a positive control on the English instrument, not an arm under test (design.md §8 limit 5).

Selection rule, applied before any seat was called: three sites the lead's frozen logs read as claiming a low standing (thin man, Chervyakov) and three it reads as claiming a high one (fat man, general), taken in text order within each group.

The reversal rule: deferential address forms, honorifics and courtesy formulas are replaced by familiar or commanding ones, and the reverse; no proposition is added or removed.

Low → high

W1 = TT08

Well, my boy — delighted, I'm sure! A friend, one may say, of childhood, and turned into such a great man! Ha, ha.

W2 = TT10

Oh, come now, my good fellow! What are you saying. . . ? Your kind attention is like refreshing manna. . . . This, my boy, is my son Nafanail, . . . my wife Luise, a Lutheran in a certain sense.

W3 = SC11

Now see here! If I take the trouble to raise this with you, it is simply from a feeling I may say of regret! . . . It was not intentional, and you may take my word for it.

High → low

W4 = TT09

Forgive me, your Excellency! What's this tone for? Your Excellency and I were friends as boys, and there is surely no need of this official obsequiousness.

W5 = SC04

Oh, if you please, sir, do sit down! Let me listen, I beg of you.

W6 = SC06

Oh, that's enough, sir . . . I had forgotten it, your honour, and you keep on about it, if I may say so.

REPEAT — the precision control, frozen before dispatch

Six GARNETT items duplicated into a different block from their first presentation, item ids suffixed -R: TT01, TT06, SC02, SC09, SC13, SC15.

Note a seventh, natural repeat: SC14 and SC16 are byte-identical in the Russian and in all four English arms — Chekhov writes «Пошел вон!!» twice. They are not part of the six and are reported separately.