Dictation and decree both dam languages against contamination and change.

Evidence

Dictating, decreeing: both activities (in their secret complicity: a decree affixes laws to us, a dictation is from an edict now essential) atternpt to form a dam against what makes languages fragile-contaminations, slovenIiness, barbarism. — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 527

Categorization

• DEFINE: Links the etymology/practice of dictation to decreeing — prescribing language to resist its fragility.
• XREF: connects to: Dismantling progress extends to language itself, not just physical structures — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the…, 656; Language can be weaponized to sanitize wrongdoing — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 388

Broader Connections

• Dismantling progress extends to language itself, not just physical structures #corroborates (0.80) — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 656
• Language can be weaponized to sanitize wrongdoing #expands (0.78) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 388