Source material beside Phi

A neighbor hands you a slip of paper: nitrate: 18 mg/L. The number matters exactly, and its units belong to another world of writing; nothing on the slip is Phi. But everything you want to say about it is: who measured, whether you trust the reading, what the garden should do about it by morning. Phi has a firm edge, and this pamphlet is about living well on both sides of it.

Phi sentences contain canonical vocabulary, ordinary grammar, transparent expressions, module terms, and valid Phi-form names. Foreign wording, exact records, other scripts, formulas, identifiers, legal clauses, medical data, citations, and quotations remain beside Phi in the surrounding medium.

This pamphlet practices four decisions: use Phi vocabulary, compose a clear expression, use a bearer-approved name after ne, or preserve a source artifact separately. It also practices translation without pretending that a translation is the source. It assumes the naming charter, which has a pamphlet of its own, and is a companion to manual Part VI, chapter 24.

A boundary can be honest without becoming a grammatical frame.