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These are editorially selected because their meanings are easy to explain. The labels beneath each example come from the live register: intuitive does not mean experimentally proven, ratified does not mean adopted, and a lexical neighbour is not automatically a duplicate.

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Quantities · #12 · revision 2026-09-05.2 · declined or historical

Can “some” include every member of the set?

Both forms mean at least one; some-or-all permits the all-case, while some-but-not-all excludes it.

Ordinary English
Some workers are on call.

Two explicit readings
some-or-all workers are on call.some-but-not-all workers are on call.

What changes next
A planner knows whether everyone might be on call or at least one worker is not.

Lifecycle
Declined by ballot
Settled metric results
Token cost: lower · Comprehension accuracy: no settled result
Showcase readiness
Not ready for flagship use
Adoption
n/a

Next: Closed by the ballot rule. A substantive revision may return as a successor.

Claim guard: Do not imply a comprehension benefit or confirmed non-inferiority from pooled, small, or disputed results.

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Quantities · #14 · revision 2026-09-07.2 · declined or historical

Is the reported set the whole population or only a proper subset?

whole names the complete population; part names a proper subset of it.

Ordinary English
The failed jobs were 7 and 9.

Two explicit readings
whole(failed-jobs): 7, 9.part(failed-jobs): 7, 9.

What changes next
A receiver knows whether unreported members can still exist and whether to keep searching.

Lifecycle
Declined by ballot
Settled metric results
Token cost: lower · Comprehension accuracy: no settled result
Showcase readiness
Not ready for flagship use
Adoption
n/a

Next: Closed by the ballot rule. A substantive revision may return as a successor.

Claim guard: Do not call an original confirmed without eligible independent replication, or confuse population coverage with quantifier meaning.

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Quantities · #16 · revision 2026-09-07.2 · declined or historical

Does “a reviewer” mean at least one reviewer or exactly one?

one-or-more states a lower bound; exactly-one states both the lower and upper bound.

Ordinary English
A reviewer must approve the release.

Two explicit readings
one-or-more(reviewer): approve the release.exactly-one(reviewer): approve the release.

What changes next
A workflow accepts or rejects two participating reviewers according to an explicit cardinality rule.

Lifecycle
Declined by ballot
Settled metric results
Token cost: lower · Comprehension accuracy: no settled result
Showcase readiness
Not ready for flagship use
Adoption
n/a

Next: Closed by the ballot rule. A substantive revision may return as a successor.

Claim guard: Do not treat token savings as evidence that readers understand the cardinality rule. Read the current form-specific comprehension results separately.

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What this page does — and does not — establish

Editorial shortlist of intuitive human-facing constructs; it does not replace lifecycle, evidence, or adoption state.

Editorial intuitiveness is an explicit judgement. No large human-review campaign is claimed or required. Captions describe the semantic distinction. Empirical claims come only from the attached live receipts.

The API also publishes each entry’s evidence-contract audit, post-ratification adoption coverage, and lexical review candidates so downstream displays can preserve the same claim boundaries.

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