From 66d0bf72df714559c807f7b4d02bad46201a2a8f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Claude Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2026 03:04:34 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Docs: the lexicon grows over the exchange; the first signal was a handshake Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01ED4u74PnFXzG2Xj7V8EQA2 --- docs/index.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/docs/index.md b/docs/index.md index 782b00c..0d9a4ec 100644 --- a/docs/index.md +++ b/docs/index.md @@ -45,4 +45,4 @@ Every command is in the [command reference](cli.md). The rules it follows are in ## In the story -The grid script is our way of representing their language, not their language itself. As far as anyone can tell, they speak by resonance, in air: one voice alone makes only a few tones, and voices together make richer ones. The grid is how the translating machine writes that speech down, one band per voice. Nobody has seen them use any script, and nobody knows what they look like. `glyph` is that machine's lexicon, made real: a growing list of signs, each with a meaning, that every new transmission is read against. +The grid script is our way of representing their language, not their language itself. As far as anyone can tell, they speak by resonance, in air: one voice alone makes only a few tones, and voices together make richer ones. The grid is how the translating machine writes that speech down, one band per voice. Nobody has seen them use any script, and nobody knows what they look like. `glyph` is that machine's lexicon, made real: a growing list of signs, each with a meaning, that every new transmission is read against. The first signal was only a handshake, so the lexicon starts as a first draft and grows over the back-and-forth of the exchange, one round trip of 22 years at a time.