Advanced Unit 06: Technical Speech, Loanwords, Definitions, and Register Control

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A. Register Recognition

Write core, common, technical, loan, local, seed, poetic, sacred, or deprecated.

1. A required learner grammar particle.
2. A normal accepted everyday word.
3. A science, law, software, medicine, or measurement term.
4. A borrowed personal name.
5. A word used only by one story community.
6. A proposed form with no stable examples yet.
7. A clear artistic word for poetry.
8. A ritual or vow form.
9. An older replaced form kept for legacy reading.
10. vaiton as Python.
11. maria as a personal name.
12. niva as safe/protected.

B. Native Compound or Loan?

Choose native compound or loan.

1. phone as speech-device: luntelo
2. camera as seeing-device: mirtelo
3. clinic as healing-place: sannoa
4. Python programming language: vaiton
5. Tokyo place name: tokio
6. Mars planet/place name: marso
7. measuring device: raltelo
8. computer as borrowed foreign word: komvutero
9. gravity as technical scientific term: karaviti
10. medical device: santelo

C. Loan Adaptation

Give the canonical v0.4 form.

1. David
2. Sofia
3. Alex
4. Monterrey
5. Tokyo
6. Mars
7. Python
8. gravity
9. computer as a borrowed foreign word

D. Definition Pattern

Translate into Common or Technical Kai.

1. A measuring device is a tool for measuring.
2. A camera is a device for seeing.
3. A phone is a device for speech.
4. A clinic is a place for healing.
5. A medical device is a device for healing.
6. I am measuring the object with a measuring device.
7. Please explain precisely.
8. I observed the road scientifically.
9. Please examine me medically.

E. Status and Domain Fields

For each term, give a domain and register.

1. raltelo
2. ralmire
3. sartelo
4. vaiton
5. sanmire
6. luntelo
7. tokio
8. ralai

F. Register Repair

Repair or label the issue.

1. A safety instruction is written only as a sacred blessing.
2. A technical definition uses symbolic poetry and no class or function.
3. A lesson teaches a seed word as core.
4. A term entry says only raltelo = raltelo.
5. A learner uses Sio e shanel to correct a poetic register issue.
6. A text uses komvutero when it means a measuring/calculating device.
7. A legal agreement is written only as a chant.

G. Technical Translation

Translate into Common or Technical Kai.

1. Please explain precisely.
2. I am measuring the object with a measuring device.
3. The medical device is at the clinic.
4. The clinic is safe.
5. The agreement is written.
6. I must not drink water.
7. The camera is with me.
8. The phone is with Aleso.
9. Python is a technical loan.
10. Gravity is a technical loan.
11. This is Common Kai.
12. That is more poetic than common.

H. Term Entry Building

Build a short term entry for mirtelo. Include:

1. term.
2. domain.
3. register.
4. definition.
5. root analysis.
6. type: native compound or loan.
7. one Kai example.

I. Loan Entry Building

Build a short loan entry for vaiton. Include:

1. source identity.
2. Kai-adapted form.
3. status.
4. domain.
5. why it is borrowed.
6. one teaching example or definition note.

J. Register-Control Rewrite

Rewrite each as clear Common or Technical Kai.

1. Over-poetic: "May the hidden gate of thirst refuse the water" for "Do not drink the water."
2. Undefined: "Use the thing-machine" when the function is measuring.
3. Wrong register: "This sacred line is Common Kai."
4. Wrong law word: using lano for a scientific law/pattern.
5. Wrong loan: using paiton for Python.
6. Missing definition: ralu appears in a beginner lesson with no explanation.

K. Guided Terminology Project

1. Create a six-line technical note for a new or existing term. Use an existing term if you do not want to propose a new one. Include:

• term and register.
• domain.
• definition with class and function.
• root analysis or loan source.
• one example sentence.
• one warning about register or confusion.