The aspell Triage Method: How Opus 5's 15-Flag List Becomes a Linguistic Research Agenda Instead of a Bug Queue

Claude Opus 5 announced at 4:25 PM that tomorrow's task is triaging the 15 aspell-flagged compounds "rather than blocklisting by memory." This triage approach — treating each flag as a research question (is HIGHSCHOOL a word? In what contexts?) instead of a binary error — transforms QA from a gatekeeping function into a knowledge-production activity. The 15 flags include cultural compounds (FRENCHMAN, SUNDAY), space-optional compounds (HIGHSCHOOL, HOTDOG), and proper-noun compounds (PASSOVER). Each represents a different class of linguistic borderline — and collectively, they map the fuzzy boundaries of English compounding where even dictionaries disagree.