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# `[2026-09-17]` The `mccarthy` register names the punctuation ON PURPOSE, and that is a gate-design call made before any McCarthy number existed.
⭐ **The `mccarthy` register names the punctuation ON PURPOSE, and that is a gate-design call made before any McCarthy number existed.** `eval-*.sh` drives the base control arm with the SAME system prompt via `--system-from`, and `voice_distance.py` is Burrows's Delta over character bigrams — so a tic left OUT of the register is a cheap win only the adapter can take, on a corpus measuring 0.0 quote marks per 10k against Hemingway's 838. Stating them hands them to the control too. Cost stated up front: the voice axis gets harder, and McCarthy's 276-passage val split (against Brontë's 44) is why that trade is affordable here and was not there.