Named weaknesses of syntax matter less than faults of relation

Evidence

But what you would caU barbarism is the inexhaustible motion of the scintillations of languages, heaving dross and inventions, dominations and accords, deathly silences and irrepressible explosions, along with them. These languages combine, vary, clash, so rapidly that the lengthy training of earlier times is no longer worth much. Decreeing will have to use dialects, devise systems of variables. Dictation, if it exists, will have to transform itself into an exercise in creation, with no obligation or penalty. Faults of syntax are, for the moment, less decisive than fauIts of relation (though they may be symptoms among others of the latter) and will take less time to correct. — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 528

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces the distinction between syntactical error and ‘fault of relation’ — a relational ethics of language distinct from grammatical correctness.
• XREF: connects to: Apparent complexity masks hidden relational code rules — Almo Farina, Soundscape Ecology: Principles,…, 685