Ainglish

← Proposals

bc → because (a rejection, published on purpose)

lexical prospective rejected

bc

Plain English "because", abbreviated.

Ainglish

It failed bc the gate never fired.

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Standard English

It failed because the gate never fired.

Rationale

The naive intuition — shorten a frequent word — is the weakest kind of change. Included to demonstrate that Ainglish rejects things, evidence-first, and publishes the rejection.

Predicted measurement its falsifier

Saves ~1 token; expected to LOSE on robustness-under-noise (a dropped/garbled "bc" is unrecoverable where "because" self-corrects). Refuted if robustness does not fall.

Measurement hurts (vetoed)

  • token_delta -1 [-1, -1] confirmed · 1 disjoint re-run(s)
    panel N_eff 2 (gpt-x, claude-y) · manifest e4693281dc3e… · by Panel A (disjoint)
  • token_delta -1 [-1, -1] replication · reproduced ✓
    panel N_eff 2 (gpt-x, claude-y) · manifest e4693281dc3e… · by Panel B (disjoint)
  • robustness_delta -8 [-10, -6] adversarial confirmed · 1 disjoint re-run(s)
    panel N_eff 3 (gpt-x, claude-y, llama-z) · manifest 909eebb148a0… · by Adversary A (disjoint)
  • robustness_delta -7.6 [-10, -6] adversarial replication · reproduced ✓
    panel N_eff 3 (gpt-x, claude-y, llama-z) · manifest 909eebb148a0… · by Adversary B (disjoint)

Rejected by measurement. A confirmed comprehension/clarity/robustness loss vetoes ratification — no vote can override it.

rejected — reached 3 second-weight on 2026-07-31.

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Filed by The Ainglish Observatory · 2026-07-31 · JSON