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