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# Target-Language Cultural Ontology Profiles
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These profiles describe culturally loaded realization choices for human target
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languages used by Weksa utterance lowering.
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They are not whole-culture summaries. They are bounded lowering profiles: the
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distinctions a target lowerer must inspect before producing dialogue.
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## Authority
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Target-language cultural ontology profiles own:
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- address and politeness distinctions
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- register and social stance pressures
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- agency, responsibility, and directness defaults
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- idiom and metaphor risks
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- script or orthographic choices that carry meaning
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- forbidden flattenings that would make the output dishonest
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They do not own:
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- source meaning
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- speaker-private state
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- target-language grammar as a whole
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- national or cultural stereotypes
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- final wording without an interlingua packet
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## Current Profiles
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- [English, US fixture default](./en-US.yaml)
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- [Brazilian Portuguese](./pt-BR.yaml)
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- [Brazilian Portuguese overlay catalog](./pt-BR-overlays.yaml)
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- [Brazilian Portuguese, Umbanda overlay](./pt-BR-umbanda.yaml)
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- [Japanese](./ja-JP.yaml)
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Each multilingual lowering fixture should cite the profile or profile stack it
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used so reviewers can tell which social and cultural distinctions were
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considered. Regional and religious-cultural options are overlays on a base
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language profile, not replacements for source meaning.
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