# Shared-Vocabulary Ban Conformance - Chapter 08

Checked final chapter against global/book-specific shared vocabulary risks and prior tic ledger.

- PROTECTED TERMS: CLEAR - no `load-bearing` variants, no `Winter Kitchen`, no first snow, no Philadelphia/Nia/Asha, no route-card replay.
- DIALOGUE-DIAGNOSIS BAN: CLEAR - no narration labels a line's tone, rhythm, carefulness, or phrasing. The earlier draft's table-talk diagnosis was cut. Current closest candidates are practical action lines: Mara's "The head count worked" (line 37) and Theo waiting for a follow-up question that never comes (line 43).
- SHARED COMIC DICTION: CLEAR - "alleged" belongs to June's established vocabulary and is used in her food ranking (line 65), not spread to the cohort.
- THEO/JUNE VOCABULARY SPLIT: CLEAR - Theo owns file/rack/folder/label/alarm; June owns ranked food and witness-protection joke.
- AI/REGISTER WATCH: CLEAR WITH WATCH - final gate watch counts repeated descriptors/body terms; they are mostly literal studio/table vocabulary. No open or over-cap findings.

Chapter verdict: VOCABULARY-CONFORMS.

REVISION ORDERS: none.
