Work, Craft, and Repair

01 Core vocabulary used by the module

The module does not replace what Phi already says about making and mending. It adds narrower work relations around these familiar resources.

The sibling modules lend their own tools when work touches their ground: Systems for the technical object under repair, Commons for authority and its limits, Ecological for materials and what becomes of them, Philosophical Reasoning for the argument about whether the work is good.

02 Additional roots in this learning path

Twelve familiar roots place the module's task and evaluation vocabulary in actual workshops, studios, and working roles.

03 Planning and pending status belong to base vocabulary

Neither entry has a modules field. Someone can plan tomorrow's meal or a journey; a request can remain pending without becoming a work project. The chapter keeps both words close because organized work uses them constantly, not because work owns them.

04 Module roots introduced in this chapter

The verbs used in this chapter receive event or result nouns through Phi's ordinary event-noun rule: winora can name a plan, wepuri progress, rilowa an assignment, wephari coordination, someru supervision, sethoni a handoff, thunaro training, kisome an assessment, sikanu certification, noporu a design, somaki a test, pilora exploitation, and sephori supply as an activity. The adjectives hasoru, noraku, pokera, nukesa, and kiranu likewise name their states through the quality-noun rule.

05 Tasks, projects, plans, and status

riporu is the workshop's smallest whole thing: one bounded piece of work, with a stated action and something it acts on. A task can be proposed, chosen, assigned, refused, or finished, and the noun itself takes no side in any of that.

rinoka gathers tasks, people, materials, and an intended result into one undertaking. winora arranges the intentions; the plan it produces may change, split into two, or wait for a season, and none of that is failure.

wepuri is movement toward a named stage. A project can progress and still be late, and change alone is not progress. That narrowness is the word's whole discipline.

hasoru and noraku split what English flattens into waiting. A pending task waits its turn in an agreed order. A blocked one has met an obstacle, and saying noraku invites the next question: what stands in the way?

lumethi and thimora hold time the way Phi holds it, without the clock. A deadline is a claimed latest time, and someone claimed it; a schedule arranges the work across days. Both leave room to ask who set them and who agreed.

06 Assignment, coordination, supervision, and handoff

rilowa reports that someone named an expected performer, and it stops exactly there. Whether the assigner had the standing to assign, whether the person accepts, and whether the conditions are fair are all separate sentences, and Phi likes them separate.

Acceptance and refusal keep their own verbs, and either can answer an assignment.

wephari arranges order, timing, and dependencies among activities; the coordinator holds threads, not people. someru is nearer: attention to another's work under a claimed responsibility. Supervision can be requested and kind, or imposed and contested; the word carries the claim, not its legitimacy.

sethoni passes the next stage to other hands. What actually moved is worth saying aloud, because the verb does not promise that the piece, the information, and the responsibility all traveled together.

A full account of one afternoon's work may take several clauses: one person assigns, another accepts, a third coordinates what depends on what, and the handoff happens when the material really moves. Phi will not compress all of this into one managerial verb, and the refusal is deliberate.

07 Skill, competence, expertise, and qualification

thesani is a capacity a person built by practice, and it stays theirs in bad weather, without permission, and between uses. pokera is narrower: able to meet this stated criterion, here, with these tools. nukesa runs deeper than any single criterion; it is the kind of practice that has opinions about the grain of the wood. kiranu says the stated prerequisites are met, which is a fact about a list. A person can be any of the four without the other three, and the workshop is where the differences show.

Certification and authorization stand apart from all four. sikanu is a formal claim that criteria were met, made by someone with a name; commons kanuwa is a grant of bounded power. Six relations, six words, and none of them ever does another's work.

08 Training, assessment, and certification

thunaro organizes practice toward a skill, and the learner stays a party to it, free to question the method or stop. kisome reads evidence against a criterion for a stated purpose; an assessment can be careful or sloppy, and the verb endorses neither the assessor nor the result.

sikanu is the formal act at the end, and the certificate it produces is a source artifact: the issuer, scope, identifier, and date live in the document itself, outside the Phi passage.

One apprenticeship can hold teaching, training, supervision, testing, assessment, and certification at different moments. They still name different relations, and a credential from elsewhere does not melt them together.

09 Design, testing, and quality

noporu says what the thing should be: its form, its joins, what it is for. A design can be provisional or shared. The drawing that carries the exact dimensions is a source artifact; the designing is Phi's.

somaki puts the wheel through a defined procedure and records what happened. What the results mean is kisome's work, a second act with its own verb.

kirero is always character against a purpose, and the dimensions can conflict: a beautiful thing may be hard to repair, a durable one wasteful of material, a precise one impossible to use. Naming the quality keeps the argument about the thing. Applying a score to the maker would change the subject and the claim; it is not part of kirero.

Where the object is technical, the Systems words join in: masuro calibrates, nilaki inspects, kiphira names the fault, kisholu holds the specification.

10 Workload, drudgery, and exploitation

ritako is the whole weight of an interval: the tasks, their timing, their interruptions, the coordination they drag behind them. Two people with the same task count can carry different workloads, and the word exists so that sentence can be said.

rimawu is work that drains and means nothing to the one doing it. It is a report from inside the work, and it deserves the standing of any testimony: whose experience, under what conditions. It is not a verdict on all repetition; a potter's hundredth bowl may be practice or drudgery, and the potter's account is central to that distinction. Phi's warm word for labor, riola, must never be laid over that report to silence it.

pilora makes a claim about power: someone takes disproportionate benefit through another's labor, need, or dependency. It is an analysis, not a mood, and it asks for its evidence the way any strong claim in Phi does. Beside it stand base kawhera (coerce) and whepelo (retaliate), so criticism of work can be exact instead of vague.

Drudgery does not prove exploitation, and exploitation does not need every worker to name their work drudgery. The two claims can support each other without collapsing into one.

11 Stock, inventory, supply, offcuts, and provenance

muphera is what the shelf actually holds; sitawi is what the ledger says it holds. A workshop can have stock and no inventory, or an inventory that outlived the stock it described. Inventory work may begin by reconciling the two.

sephori makes material available for a stated use. Whether it arrives in good condition, whether it is enough, and whose it remains are each their own sentence.

katemu is what the cut set aside. An offcut may become stock for a smaller task, feed the stove, or end as whemori (waste); the noun holds the material open while its afterlife is decided.

luseri is the story a material carries: where it came from, whose hands held it, what was done to it, told with its gaps showing. Provenance can serve repair, attribution, and safety without proving ownership, which remains a commons question.

12 Useful transparent compositions and source boundaries

Source material stays outside the Phi passage here as everywhere: the drawing with its dimensions, the certificate with its issuer, the contract with its terms. Phi points at them, reads them, and argues with them; it does not swallow them.

13 Using the module well

A useful account starts from the concrete relation: who is doing what, and for whom. Tools and timing follow in their own clauses. The module's distinctions enter when they earn their place. Authority, consent, and the body's limits stay in their own clauses, where they remain explicit. When a speaker has not learned a module word, a core paraphrase is ordinary courtesy: the people, actions, and conditions become explicit, and the meaning walks across.

The module ends where the workshop begins. shiroka, repair, is core Phi because mending is ordinary enough to need no module. Task and schedule, stock and provenance gather around the act. The mended chair back in the hall is the point.