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Repository path: workshop/translations/kalila-saih/R32-v1/README.md · rendered 2026-09-09

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idT-kalila-saih-R32-v1
statusfrozen
created2026-08-16
updated2026-08-16
sensesstyle-correspondence
linksworkshop/regimes/R32-supplied-figure.md, workshop/translations/kalila-saih/R30-v1/translation.md, workshop/experiments/E-20260816-answering-figure/materials/arms.json, wiki/findings/results/RS-20260816-answering-figure.md
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contaminationnone
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internal-judgment-onlytrue

T-kalila-saih-R32-v1 — «باب السائح والصائغ», the supplied arm (a DECOY, not a rendering anyone should make)

This text is deliberately misleading and is filed only as an experimental control. It is T-kalila-saih-R30-v1 with thirteen substitutions that put English sound devices — the same classes, in the same numbers, from the same hand — at thirteen places where the Arabic has no sound figure at all. The places were chosen by a mechanical length-matching rule, not by the translator.

It exists so that T-kalila-saih-R31-v1 can be read: without it, a reader who infers "the original was patterned here" from a compensation has shown only that they respond to ornament. Regime: ../../../regimes/R32-supplied-figure.md; every edit in ../../../experiments/E-20260816-answering-figure/materials/arms.json.

1,875 words against the base's 1,862. Nothing here is offered as a translation of the work.