dictation

A dictation (from Latin dictare 'dictate', 'determine', intensive to dicere 'say', 'speak') is a fixed and usually unchangeable text that represents an order , an order or an enforced contract .

to form

• In school , a dictation is understood to be a text that is read out to check spelling skills, i.e. a transcript of something that has been spoken.
  In the past few years, public dictation competitions have arisen in France and Germany ( Dicos dOr, “The Great Dictation Competition”), which are not only aimed at schoolchildren.
• In the office, a dictation is understood to be a text, but also the process of creating it, in which a dictator reads a text to a secretary, either directly or through a sound carrier, which the secretary then puts on paper.
• Political dictation: This occurs when a political or military party, as a result of a defeat in a conflict, dictates the conditions by the victorious powers when it no longer has the necessary means to counteract it effectively. Then there is a compulsion to accept the conditions. Historical examples of such a dictation are:
  • the 1917 Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
  • the Treaty of Versailles and the Treaty of Saint-Germain of 1919,
  • the peace of Tilsit concluded on July 7, 1807 as a result of Prussia's defeat in the battle of Jena and Auerstedt the previous year.
• In diplomacy , it means the final version of a document text, which is usually formulated by special office employees or members of the court before the mouth .

See also

• dictatorship
• dictum
• Typing office

Web links

Wiktionary: Dictation  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

• The big dictation competition

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ursula Langmann: For dictation, please. In: Focus Magazin, No. 50 of December 9, 1996.
2. ^ Matthias Trautsch: Hamburg also writes. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of January 21, 2015.