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Reviewer feedback: translations must carry Master Jiqun's 语气, not only register. Add a 'Speaker's Voice (语气)' section to mpi-translation and expand check D3 in mpi-translation-review. Also note the idea of distilling his way of talk into a dedicated skill (docs/idea-jiqun-voice-skill.md).
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Idea: distill Master Jiqun's way of talk (语气) into a skill
Date: 2026-07-20 Status: idea / not scheduled
Background
Reviewer feedback on a translated article: translations must preserve Master Jiqun's 语气 — the speaker's voice and manner — not just the tone (register, formality). A translation can have the right register and still flatten the teacher's voice.
As a first step, a "Speaker's Voice (语气)" section was added to
skills/mpi-translation/SKILL.md, and check D3 in
skills/mpi-translation-review/SKILL.md was expanded to verify 语气 markers.
That covers the immediate need, but the knowledge is currently a short bullet
list inside a general skill.
Idea
Distill Master Jiqun's way of talk into a dedicated skill (or a reference doc
under skills/mpi-translation/references/), built from evidence across many
of his talks:
- Collect characteristic passages (source + approved translations) from the
terms DB (
locfields) and finished articles intranslate-files/. - Catalog his recurring devices: rhetorical question chains, first-person asides (我经常说 / 我曾在讲座中 / 由此我想到), reasoning connectives (可见 / 所以说 / 事实上), homely analogies (rotting apple, leaking boat, teacup, face mask), gentle admonition with humor, measured unhurried authority, inclusive we/you address.
- For each device, give approved English renderings and common failure modes (e.g. question → declaration, "我经常说" → "it is said").
- Possibly also cover delivery/register differences between his oral talks, essays, and micro-blog posts.
Open questions
- Standalone skill vs. reference doc under
mpi-translation? A reference doc is probably enough; a full skill may be overkill. - Who approves the example translations used as evidence?
- Should it also cover other MPI teachers, or stay Jiqun-specific?