comments: the l* sweep — an escaped comment, two duplicated blocks, and a misfiled doc

[christopherthompson81]

Continues the alphabetical comment sweep. 15 files across lao, latgalian, latin, latvian, lingala, lithuanian, luganda, lulesami, luo, luxembourgish.

Comment-only. Verified by transpiling both revisions with --removeComments and diffing the emitted JS: byte-identical across all 539 files in the closure. Typecheck clean, 3118 tests pass.

Real defects, not just tightening

• luo.ts had a comment written in literal \u escapes — ⟨ng'⟩, → ASCII '. It renders as ⟨ng'⟩ … → ASCII ' in any tool that decodes escapes, which is why it survived every prior read of the file; it only shows up in the raw bytes.
• lao.ts stated the ອ/ວ two-character lookahead rule twice, back to back, in two paragraphs whose examples had drifted apart.
• lao.ts's SylF interface carried the doc comment for scan() — "Scan one reordered Lao word into rendered IPA syllables", a description of a function attached to a type.
• lithuanian.ts and latvian.ts each had the inventory block duplicated: two adjacent doc comments making the same statement about NATIVE_CLASS.
• luganda.ts read "ŋ were REMOVED" — singular subject, plural verb.

The standing standard

Dropped: chronology ("the fleet's 3rd Baltic language", "the FIRST Nilotic language in the repo"), referee corpus counts, decode transcripts of what the engine used to emit, and issue numbers. Kept: invariants, traps, ordering constraints, deliberate omissions.

Project-internal ★ and 🔷 become ⚠ where they mark a hazard and plain bullets where they were only section labels. l* was the first letter still carrying them — a–k are clean, and 15 files from m onward still have them, which their letters will pick up.

luxembourgish/normalize.ts

The bulk of the diff. Its trap N references into docs/normalization_playbook.md carried ellipsis-truncated glosses — trap 9 (a guard alternative with no attested…) — which read as broken text in the file where they appear. Each is replaced by the point it was making, so the file no longer depends on a numbering scheme in a process document to be legible.

The corpus counts there are kept only where they license a decision rather than merely record one:

• the colon is never a clock in this language (every \d+:\d+ is a score or ratio, so no colon-clock rule is written);
• a bare -N is a compound hyphen, not a negative number, which is why the minus rule keeps the German guard;
• the number/unit separator is usually NBSP or narrow NBSP, so a rule keyed on a plain space matches almost nothing.

Note on a cross-cutting block

Seven files repo-wide share a NOT QUITE VERBATIM inventory block that carries four lines of history plus an anecdote about a Romanian word. I tightened the two in l*; aromanian, asturian, kabuverdianu, maltese and romanian still have the old wording and will converge as their letters come up — including a retro-pass over the three in already-swept letters.

[christopherthompson81]

Review pass. Re-read my own diff and found four paraphrase errors, fixed in f305375:

• the copula note claimed ass néngte beim Männer-Super-G is "the same phrase" as ass 15. beim Männer-Super-G. It is the same frame with a different number (néngte is 9th, the digit is 15) — which is exactly what makes it evidence for the ending. Calling it the same phrase overstates it.
• "So does Joer" attached Joer to the wrong clause. Joer does not turn numerals into ordinals; it is excluded for the same reason the copula is.
• ORDINAL_NOUN also carries Joerhonnerts and Joerdausend, which my shortened gloss dropped.
• step 1 said both grouping forms leave "a phrase break plus a spurious null". Only the period form does — the space form (9 000 → néng null) has no period, so it leaves the spurious word alone.

Re-verified token-identical after the fixes. 3118 tests pass.

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One code finding, deliberately not fixed here (this PR is comment-only): src/languages/lao/lao.ts:59 declares interface Syl and nothing uses it — scanFeatures returns SylF. It looks like the residue of the split into feature-records, and the misfiled SylF doc comment this PR fixed was part of the same seam. Worth a one-line deletion in a separate PR rather than smuggled into a diff whose whole guarantee is that the emitted code doesn't change.

Also verified rather than assumed: the Luganda note now asserts the g2p has no rule for ⟨ŋ⟩. ŋ does appear in luganda.jsonc — but only as an output value (the realisation of ng'), never as a grapheme key, so the claim holds.