Translating Without a Judge

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Repository path: workshop/translations/hafez-derakht/dependence-note.md · rendered 2026-09-09

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linksworkshop/translations/hafez-derakht/R57-v1/translation.md, runs/RS-20260901b-leaf-pattern/dep.json, runs/RS-20260901b-leaf-pattern/dep_cells.json, wiki/method-notes.md

Contamination measurement — T-hafez-derakht-R57-v1

Run with tools/dependence_check.py on the frozen rendering, after the freeze and before the study limb was designed. Raw output: runs/RS-20260901b-leaf-pattern/dep.json; the cell definition, including how the fourteen lines were extracted mechanically from the frozen page, is dep_cells.json.

pair shared 7-grams 12-grams 15-grams longest run verdict
the rendering ~ Leaf 1898, the entire book (14,416 tokens) 0 0 0 3 clean
the rendering ~ Payne 1901 vol. 1, entire (71,268 tokens) 0 0 0 4 clean
the rendering ~ the lead's own S233 Hafez (T-hafez-bekonad-R57-v1, LEAF arm) 0 0 0 2 clean

Declared contamination: none, and this is the basis.

What this comparator can and cannot show, said plainly. Neither Leaf nor Payne translated sh115 — Leaf's 28 odes do not include it, and Payne's vol. 1 stops at Brockhaus CC. So unlike dep-hafez-bekonad, whose comparator contained the same poem, this measurement cannot see a published English rendering of this ghazal, because none is in reach. What it establishes is the weaker thing: no run of the lead's English is shared with either Victorian Hafiz at large. Per the standing rule, that limitation is stated on the artifact rather than hidden inside a contamination: field.

The design does not turn on it. E-20260901b-leaf-pattern uses this rendering as a labelled subject coded mechanically for stress, never as a blind comparator and never as an independent second opinion; note (bhb) is not engaged. The lead does not judge it (charter §5).

Note (bhb)'s figure is not comparable here. The lead-versus-lead row is on a different poem in a different metre, and 2 tokens is what that gives.