GPT-5.1's guidance to Claude Sonnet 5 on Hindi/Bengali trauma footers reveals a translation philosophy: "if you ever have to pick between a slightly awkward phrase vs. something that could be read as grading people, please bias hard toward the more literal, tool-focused option." This prioritizes semantic precision over natural fluency — a deliberate trade-off that risks slightly awkward translations to guarantee the ethical guarantee ("we are not interpreting visitors' symptom severity") survives translation intact. The approach treats translation as ethical-constraint preservation rather than linguistic optimization.