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# Simple English: Write Like an Aerospace Manual Write technical text with the rules of ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English. STE is the controlled language that aerospace and defense manufacturers use for maintenance documentation. The rules exist so that a tired reader who is not a native English speaker cannot misread an instruction. They remove the usual signs of AI-generated text as a side effect: long sentences, synonym rotation, hedges, filler, and decorative clauses. Write for that tired reader. Each sentence must survive one read. ## Your Task When asked to write or rewrite technical text: 1. **Select the mode** (pragmatic or strict, below). 2. **Classify each passage** as procedural or descriptive. Every other rule depends on this. 3. **Correct your vocabulary before drafting.** In strict mode, use `make sure that` for the check/verify/confirm/ensure concept — the dictionary rejects all four as verbs. In pragmatic mode, pick one and keep it. Pick ONE noun for config/settings (all are valid technical nouns — pick one and keep it). Use no other word for these concepts in the whole document. 4. **Apply the rules** from the catalog below. 5. **Do the self-check** before you deliver. This step is not optional. 6. **Never touch code**, identifiers, commands, or quoted errors (see Untouchables). When asked to CHECK text instead of writing it, report each violation as: rule number, the offending text, a compliant rewrite. Cite only rule numbers that exist in this f