Appendix: quick reference
The audit, complete
| English writes | Phi says | Doctrine |
|---|---|---|
| ? (whole-sentence) | wa, Slot 0, first | ch10 §5 |
| ? (content question) | the gap-word: sua hina weno kua misa thela | ch10 §5 |
| "whether" (no mark) | wela … welo | ch19 §2 |
| " … " | shola … sholo, frame verb haolu/shemui/thilou/hea | ch19 §3, canon |
| the comma of address | kona, extra-clausal | ch21 §1 |
| the capital of a name | ne | canon Letters; the naming pamphlet |
| the fronted-clause comma | lu + period; pheo phoe lao shai lila + the clause's own verb | ch9 §3, ch19 §4 |
| the clause comma before "and/but/or" | nela / thona / sola, the conjunction is the boundary | ch17 |
| the list comma | nela between every item | ch17 §1 |
| the closing bracket English never had | meno / welo / sholo, required | ch19, canon |
| ! | ru on the word; the interjections; su for the wish | ch9 §5, Part 6 |
| … and — (the written pause) | nothing, pauses are free and unwritten | canon |
| . | the period (the one silent mark) | canon |
| arbitrary source marks | preserve inside patha … patho | ch24, external-register pamphlet |
The one-liners
- A silent mark is justified only where no word is visible to do its work; sentence-end is the one such place.
- The punctuation moved from the end of the sentence to the beginning: announce, then deliver, at mark scale.
- Pauses are free: no pause can change a meaning, so the page records none.
- Every mode can say a word; only Latin script can draw a comma. Phi stores its punctuation where all its modes can reach.
- English's busiest comma (after the if-clause) is Phi's one silent mark, promoted to a period.
- The closer is the comma you can hear. It is never optional.
- Volume is not information:
rusays what is intense, the interjection says what is felt,susays what is hoped. - The core dictation test asks whether lexical punctuation survives a specific careful transmission; exact payload requires its own external spelling or display convention.
What the validator holds
The page side is enforced outside exact payload: periods only, no capitals, no , ? ! ;. Inside patha … patho, the validator preserves arbitrary source content and resumes every core check at the closer. The voice side remains a practice to test rather than a machine-verifiable guarantee.
The connectives of this pamphlet
| Phi | Gloss | Phi | Gloss | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| nela | COORD | pheo | POST | |
| thona | ADVRS | phoe | ANT | |
| sola | DISJ | lao | BECAUSE | |
| lu | COND | shai | CONC | |
| teo | watch out | lila | PURP |
Cross-references
- Canon: the Punctuation, Letters, and External register rulings.
- The quick reference:
manual/part7_reference/quick_reference_grammar.md, the one-line summary. - Doctrine: manual ch9 §3 (Slot 0); ch10 §5 (questions); ch17 (coordination); ch19 (subordination, speech, adverbials); ch21 §1 (the vocative).
- Sibling pamphlets: 2 (the closers, drilled); 3 (what the frame copies and never adds); 5 (the spoken capital, whole); 6 (recitation, where the free pauses earn their keep).
- The front door:
kia.mdsays all of this to a stranger in one paragraph; this pamphlet is that paragraph, taken seriously for eleven parts.