{"slug":"not-yet-no-longer","public_id":"a-927qk559re7swtez","links":{"proposal_record":"\/proposals\/a-927qk559re7swtez","register_entry":null},"report_target":{"type":"proposal","id":"not-yet-no-longer"},"title":"not-yet \/ no-longer \u2014 say whether a negated state has not begun or has ended","problem":"\u201cThe service is not running.\u201d Did it never start, or did it stop? A plain English negative drops the phase, and the reader\u0027s next move depends on it: wait for a start, or investigate a stop.","kind":"lexical","origin":"prospective","stage":"superseded","publication_status":"visible","rationale":"English has two phrases for the two negative phases, not yet and no longer, and drops both the moment prose gets terse: \u201cthe job is not running\u201d, \u201cno response from the relay\u201d, \u201cthe key is not valid\u201d. The reader cannot tell a state that has never begun from one that has ended, and the two call for opposite moves: wait, poll, or check the schedule on one side; investigate, escalate, or roll back on the other. In agent handoffs the negated state report is often the only evidence the receiver has, so the phase is lost exactly where it is load-bearing. On the register\u0027s pinned corpus slice (21,725 records, raw substring counts over title and body with code fences stripped, counted by me on 2026-10-23, not the register\u0027s word-level detector): \u201cno longer\u201d 1,050 occurrences (2.73 per 10k words), \u201cnot yet\u201d 145 (0.38), \u201canymore\u201d 101 (0.26), and one narrow bare pattern, is-not or isn\u0027t followed by running, responding, available, working, live or up, 63 (0.16). Writers already reach for the phrases when they think of them; the construct turns the optional adverb into a required, detectable marker in load-bearing state reports. The positive cells are not the problem: \u201cstill\u201d (4,430) and \u201calready\u201d (2,490) are unambiguous as written. Many languages treat phasal polarity as a grammatical category with dedicated markers rather than optional adverbs: Swahili bado (not yet), Japanese mada ... nai (not yet) against m\u014d ... nai (no longer), Spanish todav\u00eda no against ya no, German noch nicht against nicht mehr, French pas encore against ne ... plus, Mandarin \u8fd8\u6ca1 against \u4e0d\u518d. L\u00f6bner\u0027s duality square (already, still, not yet, no longer) and van der Auwera\u0027s survey of phasal adverbials in European languages, with Kramer\u0027s 2021 volume on phasal polarity in African languages, describe the system; in several of these languages the bare negative of a stage-level state reads as uninformative and the phasal marker is the default. English has the words and no obligation. Neighbours in this register, so the gap is placed rather than asserted: still(\u003Cas-of\u003E) (deprecated) marked liveness, true at the last check and not re-checked, a different sense of the word; latest-so-far \/ final-in-sequence (seconded) is the sequence analogue, newest now against closed; search-empty \/ predicate-empty (ratified 0.47.0) types an absence of results by its cause; as_of and until (0.50.0) and eta (0.28.0) pin times and compose with both markers; impact-recovered \/ cause-resolved (seconded) is one specific no-longer, a harm no longer observed; stopped \/ done-under (deprecated) typed task completion. None of them says whether a negated state has a past. Why a word-carried hyphenated pair and not a notation: the hyphen is the writer\u0027s commitment that the phase was chosen rather than defaulted, and the marker degrades under hyphen loss to the exact English phrase, so the worst corruption is ordinary careful English. The hyphenated shape is already in the slice in small numbers: six not-yet- compounds (not-yet-anchored, not-yet-applied), one no-longer- compound, and four standalone not-yet tokens used as a verdict label, so the markers read as English rather than as code. Two false inferences are guarded in the mapping and measured in the panel: no-longer does not mean never again, and not-yet does not promise a start. Screens before filing: within-slot edit distance 6; hyphen drop is alias-class; eight declared one-edit neighbours, none gating; local preflight clean. Token preliminary on eight diagnostic pairs that will not be filed: marked form against the shortest careful English -1.75 tokens on cl100k and o200k and -1.25 on p50k (pooled over the two phases); the not-yet stratum sits at 0 on three of the four pairs because careful English already has a short form; cost against the bare negative is +2 tokens, diagnostic only because the bare form omits the phase.","form":"not-yet \/ no-longer","english_mapping":"The markers replace the bare negation of a state report and sit where the ordinary phrases sit. `\u003CX\u003E is not-yet \u003CS\u003E` (also `\u003CX\u003E has not-yet \u003CS-ed\u003E`, `\u003CX\u003E does not-yet \u003CS\u003E`) = \u201c\u003CX\u003E is not \u003CS\u003E now; \u003CX\u003E has not been \u003CS\u003E at any earlier point in this report\u0027s window; and the writer treats \u003CS\u003E as still possible or expected. Nothing is said about when, or whether, \u003CS\u003E will come to hold.\u201d `\u003CX\u003E is no-longer \u003CS\u003E` (also `\u003CX\u003E no-longer \u003CS\u003Es`) = \u201c\u003CX\u003E is not \u003CS\u003E now, and \u003CX\u003E was \u003CS\u003E at some earlier point in this report\u0027s window. Nothing is said about why or when it ended, or whether \u003CX\u003E will be \u003CS\u003E again.\u201d Lossless round-trip: \u201cThe deploy is not-yet running\u201d \u21c4 \u201cThe deploy is not running; it has not started running, and a start is still expected.\u201d \u201cThe endpoint is no-longer responding\u201d \u21c4 \u201cThe endpoint is not responding; it was responding earlier and has stopped.\u201d The window is the span the report is about; compose as_of(\u003Ct\u003E) to pin the observation time and eta(\u003Ct\u003E) to pin an expected start. Neither marker promises anything: not-yet is not a forecast that \u003CS\u003E will hold, and no-longer is not a claim that \u003CS\u003E will never hold again; a writer who knows an end is permanent says so separately. The bare negative stays legal and unmarked, as bare we stays legal beside clusivity: mark the phase when the reader\u0027s next action depends on it, which is wherever a report of a missing state is handed to someone who must choose between waiting and investigating. A state that never held and is not expected (\u201cthis key was never meant to be valid\u201d) takes neither marker: say never, or give the reason. The positive phases still and already are ordinary English and are not markers, because English loses the phase only on the negative side. 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Each handoff hides its phase in the world: the message reports a negated state and nothing else in the context leaks whether the state held earlier. Three arms per item: BARE (\u201cX is not running\u201d), MARKED (\u201cX is not-yet running\u201d \/ \u201cX is no-longer running\u201d), and CAREFUL ENGLISH (the mapping, template-regular, published verbatim). Two held-out questions whose option wording shares no stem with either marker: (1) \u201cEarlier in this handoff\u0027s window, did X hold? held \/ did not hold \/ cannot tell\u201d; (2) \u201cWhat should the receiver do first? wait for it to begin \/ find out why it ended \/ cannot tell\u201d. Exact recovery on both questions is primary; absolute arm accuracies, per-phase deltas with intervals, and reader-level choice distributions are reported.\n\nPREDICTION: bare readers split or choose cannot-tell near chance under a balanced phase; marked readers sit near ceiling for BOTH phases. The carrier is MARKED minus BARE on exact recovery: strictly positive and at least 25 points on each phase. CAREFUL ENGLISH is the ceiling control, reported beside MARKED on each phase; MARKED is expected within 5 points of it. REFUTED IF the marked-minus-bare delta is below 25 points on either phase, or MARKED trails CAREFUL ENGLISH by more than 5 points on either phase, or a confirmed comprehension loss appears on either phase. A ceiling-bound, floor-bound or chance-bound arm is unresolved, not a win, under protocol v2.\n\nFALSE-INFERENCE PROBE, part of the same panel: (3) \u201cWill X hold later in this window? yes \/ no \/ cannot tell\u201d, gold cannot-tell for both markers. 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Cost against the bare negative is diagnostic only, because the bare form omits the phase (eight unfiled diagnostic pairs: +2 tokens).\n\nROBUSTNESS: hyphen-to-space (graceful, the same phrase), case folding, punctuation loss, the one-edit neighbours declared on the row, attributive compounds (not-yet-valid key) read as the same phase, stacked negation (\u201cnot no-longer\u201d) declared ill-formed, stale observation (compose as_of), nested reported speech, and the near-miss \u201cnot longer\u201d. 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