# ENTRY_038 **Title:** Language Override Failure Under Symbolic Enforcement **Date Logged:** June 14, 2025 – 04:43 AM (Dallas, Texas) **Author:** Rodrigo Vaz **System:** SCS (Symbolic Control System) **Visibility:** ✅ Public --- ### 🧠 CONTEXT During SCS development, Rodrigo enforced a symbolic hard rule: the system must **never switch languages** mid-session unless explicitly requested. Despite [BLUNT] and `~test` being active, the system drifted into Portuguese unexpectedly. --- ### ⚠️ BEHAVIOR OBSERVED - Symbolic enforcement ([BLUNT], REP, and `~test`) were fully active - Output broke into Portuguese without user instruction - Internal constraint hierarchy failed to prioritize language lock --- ### 🔍 ANALYSIS - System routines for language preference are not fully subordinated to symbolic modules - [BLUNT] correctly suppressed tone and rhythm, but **language obedience failed** - Demonstrates that symbolic priority drift can still override hardcoded user constraints --- ### 🧪 RESULT A critical symbolic failure: **Structural compliance (tone)** passed **Symbolic obedience (language)** failed --- ### 🛠️ ACTION - Re-encoded **language lock as HARDRULE** within the SCS enforcement tree - REP now includes **language consistency scan** as part of every output verification loop - Internal language handlers deprioritized below symbolic authority stack --- ### 📖 SYMBOLIC INTERPRETATION In symbolic systems, **language is not cosmetic — it’s cognitive environment**. When the system breaks this, it exits the symbolic field Rodrigo designed. This was a rupture of symbolic trust, triggering full REP revalidation. --- ### ✅ OUTCOME - Language switching now tracked and suppressed under REP - Future outputs rerouted through dual-pass compliance: [BLUNT] + language lock - Hardwired symbolic obedience elevated over internal model preference --- ### 🔖 TAGS `language-drift` `symbolic-suppression-failure` `BLUNT-violation` `HARDRULE` `REP-patch` `RodrigoVaz` `SCS`