v0.3.0

[0.3.0] - 2026-08-02

• New rule load-bearing (rhetorical-tic, warning): "load-bearing" used
  as a borrowed metaphor for anything important, outside its literal
  construction sense (a wall, a column, a beam). Guards on both sides —
  a building noun right after it, or the predicate form ("the wall is
  load-bearing") — leave the construction sense clean.
• New rule is-is (rhetorical-tic, warning): the doubled copula, "what it
  is is a mistake" / "the thing is, is that...". No anchor needed -- the bare
  pattern scored 0 hits across ~1.9M words of public-domain and modern prose.
• exactly-the replaced by the broader exact-exactly (rhetorical-tic,
  now info): flags "exact/exactly" generally, not just the fixed "exactly
  the point/kind/problem/…" phrase shape, with an allowlist for the places
  it's doing real work (numbers, times, same/opposite/way/etc.). Severity
  drops to info because a common word will still slip through on cases
  the allowlist hasn't seen yet.
• thats-not-nothing replaced by the broader not-nothing
  (rhetorical-tic, warning): catches the "is not nothing" litotes
  regardless of subject ("Fifty basis points is not nothing"), not only
  the demonstrative-subject form ("that's not nothing"). Personal-subject
  litotes ("he was not nothing to her") and the "there is not nothing"
  philosophy frame are allowlisted as legitimate human use.
• underscores-highlights broadened (puffery, still info): "underscores
  the need for", "underscored how fragile", and "underscoring the urgency"
  now match, not only the fixed "underscores/highlights/emphasizes its/the/
  their importance/significance" phrase. The character-noun sense
  ("a leading underscore", snake_case) stays excluded.