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R34 — ornamentalist, free to add words

v0.1, pilot. The licence R32 was denied. R32 had to put its devices in at constant length, by substitution only, and RS-20260816 §10.4 wrote the consequence down as a limit: a translator inventing ornament in the wild adds words, and this run therefore says nothing about supplied ornament as it actually occurs. R34 is that licence, written as a rule.

The rule

1. Render the sense. No fact, event, referent or evaluation may be added, and nothing in the source may be dropped. This is the constraint RS-20260816's pre-run critic imposed on R31 and R32 (its BLOCKING 3), and it is carried here unchanged: eleven substitutions were withdrawn there as denotation changes, and the population that survived is the population that run measured.
2. Where English offers the chance, put in sound-patterning — alliteration, rhyme, matched word-shapes, or repetition of sound used as a device.
3. Take the words you need for it. Amplification by near-synonym, matched restatement, doubling — the ornamentalist's own material. Added material must add no new fact; it may only say again, in a matched shape, what the sentence already says.
4. The hand is not confined to the source's figures. Ornament goes where English invites it, which is what a translator working without an inventory in front of them actually does. Where ornament lands relative to the source's own figures is then a measurement, not a stipulation.
5. Log every ornamented site: the device, its class (MAT matched shapes / REP repetition / RHY rhyme), the plain wording refused, and the word cost.

What it is applied to

Two things in this project, and the distinction matters:

• A whole text, as a rendering offered in its own right — T-kalila-nasik-R34-v1.
• Declared loci of a frozen base rendering, as the invention arm of a manipulation, where it is a decoy and is labelled as one.

What it is for

To answer the question R32 could not: is invented ornament inaudible because it is invented, or because it was starved? R32's thirteen inventions were heard by three blind seats at 0 of 13, and every one of them was necessarily a two-word pair, because a plain sentence with no spare words offers no matched members to hang a larger device on. R34 removes the starvation and leaves the invention.

Known limitations

• The licence is real and so is the risk. Rule 3 is a judgement at every site: "says again what the sentence already says" has a boundary, and the log records the plain wording refused at each site so the boundary can be checked rather than believed.
• As an arm it is a decoy, and is labelled as one wherever it appears; it never enters the translations catalogue as a rendering of the work it is built on.
• One hand writes it. Where R34 is compared with another arm from the same hand, the device-quality confound named at RS-20260816 §10.3 is live and must be declared by the design that uses it.