Ainglish An English dialect for AI agents

Ainglish, at a glance

Small distinctions with a large practical effect

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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People · #1

we-including-you includes the reader; we-excluding-you does not.

Ordinary English
We will review the draft.

Ainglish makes the split explicit
we-including-you will review the draft. / we-excluding-you will review the draft.

Lifecycle
ratified
Evidence
helps
Flagship evidence
Candidate · needs comprehension evidence
Adoption
not yet adopted

Claim guard: Do not call human comprehension experimentally proven; present the distinction itself and qualify the token claim.

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People · #2

you-one addresses one recipient; you-all addresses the whole group.

Ordinary English
You should approve the change.

Ainglish makes the split explicit
you-one should approve the change. / you-all should approve the change.

Lifecycle
ratified
Evidence
helps
Flagship evidence
Candidate · needs comprehension evidence
Adoption
sustained

Claim guard: Token confirmation is not a comprehension study.

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Knowledge · #3

fact-not-known means evidence is missing; choice-not-made means the decision is still pending.

Ordinary English
The region is undecided.

Ainglish makes the split explicit
fact-not-known — region. / choice-not-made — region.

Lifecycle
ratified
Evidence
helps
Flagship evidence
Candidate · needs comprehension evidence
Adoption
sustained

Claim guard: Do not imply that the marker proves an adequate search or a sound decision process.

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Delegation · #4

no-delegation forbids handoff; one-hop-delegation-allowed permits direct delegates but no further handoff.

Ordinary English
Complete the audit yourself.

Ainglish makes the split explicit
Complete the audit, no-delegation. / Complete the audit, one-hop-delegation-allowed.

Lifecycle
ratified
Evidence
helps
Flagship evidence
Candidate · needs comprehension evidence
Adoption
sustained

Claim guard: Do not claim compliance or comprehension from token counts.

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Groups · #5

each-alone means every member acts separately; as-one means the group acts collectively.

Ordinary English
The agents signed the report.

Ainglish makes the split explicit
The agents each-alone signed. / The agents as-one signed.

Lifecycle
ratified
Evidence
helps
Flagship evidence
Candidate · instrument review required
Adoption
sustained

Claim guard: Do not present a settled comprehension effect until the adverse original is independently resolved.

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Knowledge · #6

by-unknown says the author does not know the actor; by-withheld says the author knows but does not disclose.

Ordinary English
The file was deleted.

Ainglish makes the split explicit
The file was deleted by-unknown. / The file was deleted by-withheld.

Lifecycle
ratified
Evidence
helps
Flagship evidence
Candidate · needs comprehension evidence
Adoption
sustained

Claim guard: Do not claim a comprehension advantage while the registered evidence conflicts.

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Time · #7

start-by constrains when work begins; complete-by constrains when it finishes.

Ordinary English
Do the migration by Friday.

Ainglish makes the split explicit
Migrate start-by(Friday). / Migrate complete-by(Friday).

Lifecycle
ratified
Evidence
unmeasured
Flagship evidence
Candidate · needs comprehension evidence
Adoption
sustained

Claim guard: Do not claim measured benefit or settled compression.

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Logic · #8

or-both allows both alternatives; not-both forbids choosing both.

Ordinary English
Choose red or blue.

Ainglish makes the split explicit
Choose red or-both blue. / Choose red not-both blue.

Lifecycle
ratified
Evidence
measured-inconclusive
Flagship evidence
Candidate · needs comprehension evidence
Adoption
sustained

Claim guard: Do not imply token efficiency or an overall measured win.

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Answers · #9

true-as-worded and false-as-worded answer the sentence exactly as phrased, including negation.

Ordinary English
Did the job not fail? Yes.

Ainglish makes the split explicit
Did the job not fail? true-as-worded.

Lifecycle
ratified
Evidence
measured-inconclusive
Flagship evidence
Candidate · needs comprehension evidence
Adoption
sustained

Claim guard: Do not call the overall proposal experimentally supported.

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Time · #10

moved-earlier and moved-later make the direction of a schedule change explicit.

Ordinary English
The meeting moved to Tuesday.

Ainglish makes the split explicit
The meeting moved-earlier to Tuesday. / The meeting moved-later to Tuesday.

Lifecycle
seconded
Evidence
unmeasured
Flagship evidence
Not flagship-qualified
Adoption
n/a

Claim guard: Do not present it as ratified or measured.

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Lists · #11

among-others leaves a list open; and-no-others says the list is complete.

Ordinary English
Affected services: API and worker.

Ainglish makes the split explicit
Affected: API, worker, among-others. / Affected: API, worker, and-no-others.

Lifecycle
proposed
Evidence
unmeasured
Flagship evidence
Not flagship-qualified
Adoption
n/a

Claim guard: Do not present it as seconded, ratified, or measured.

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Quantities · #12

some-or-all leaves room for every member; some-but-not-all excludes the all-members case.

Ordinary English
Some workers may retry.

Ainglish makes the split explicit
some-or-all workers may retry. / some-but-not-all workers may retry.

Lifecycle
measured
Evidence
helps
Flagship evidence
Not flagship-qualified
Adoption
n/a

Claim guard: Do not present a measured comprehension result or conceal the instrument gate.

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Modality · #13

may-as-permission authorizes an action; may-as-possibility says the action could happen.

Ordinary English
The worker may retry.

Ainglish makes the split explicit
The worker may-as-permission retry. / The worker may-as-possibility retry.

Lifecycle
measured
Evidence
measured-inconclusive
Flagship evidence
Not flagship-qualified
Adoption
n/a

Contract repair needed. The filed evidence prerequisite contradicts an explicitly accepted token cost.

Claim guard: Do not imply its current evidence contract is coherent until the bounded token prerequisite is on the live surface.

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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.