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ME.23:4.1 - Select the smallest useful language

  1. Name the receiving uses. For each materially different use, state the reader, recognizable difficulty, first useful result and stop. Begin with one; add another only when it needs a different action or boundary.
  2. Recover the allocated content. Use ME.21’s source allocations or an already sufficient equivalent result. Preserve current suppliers, unresolved candidates and direct-source remainder. Do not infer a new Method from a source heading.
  3. Identify what each body describes or governs. Use ME.8 to describe how an admitted Method is performed or to improve an account of a proposed way while retaining its unresolved identification conditions. Keep neighboring selection, evidence, permission, architecture, representation and source-return questions under their own subjects. A body can cite those results without absorbing them.
  4. Compare the direct alternative. Try a direct description or existing pattern entry for the same use. Retain a new body or language relation only when it adds a warranted action, result, boundary or saved source reconstruction at acceptable burden.
  5. Assign the contributions to bodies. Give each body its own recognizable problem, useful move, worked case and stop. Put shared conditions and the reasons for the selected combination in the profile’s whole account; use exact returns to inherited body answers.
  6. Name the material relations. State in ordinary language which result another use consumes, what condition enables that use, what is an alternative, what conflicts and where a failed or missing result returns. Apply the defining FPF relation when a stronger relation claim is needed.
  7. Provide direct reader entries. A reader should reach the relevant full body from a problem question without reading the complete production account. Whole-use explanation remains available for choosing, combining or adapting the language.
  8. Challenge the proposed arrangement. Use ME.24 to attempt reconstruction and a changed-source return. Use ME.22 only when a material claim about content or representation advantage remains. Keep a direct-description or smaller-language answer when it is sufficient.

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