1840 Indian Rebirth

Chapter 30 [Promotion text]

For example, in Ma Shao's memory, chrysanthemum was once just a kind of plant, and fungus was once just a kind of food. Later...

But it is difficult for Indians to understand this concept, and even for all people in the pre-Internet era, it is difficult to have an intuitive understanding of the changes in language and writing.

"Will the language change?" Rainy day expressed his doubts.

"Of course, otherwise, why would the Apache language of each tribe be different, and why there are so many languages ​​in the world." Ma Whistle said casually.

"Maybe they were created that way," said Rainy Day.

"Things that don't change won't be created," said Horse Whistle. "And, isn't what we're doing now a change in language?"

He didn't speak on a rainy day, and frowned slightly. He still felt a little weird, and it was not easy to understand.

But he supported the horse post idea, and worked with him to perfect the standard usage of Apache scripts and update the rules.

With the cooperation of the two, after a few days, the literalization of the Apache language was basically completed. Although it is not yet perfect, it is already usable.

The 26 English letters, together with Arabic numerals and some symbols, constitute the cornerstone of this system, which is then combined into characters with the "Chinese Pinyin Scheme".

Horse Whistle also adds some bold expressions to this set of Apache scripts.

For example, he added a kind of brackets, which can enclose part of a sentence in order to eliminate ambiguity or better reflect logical relationships.Just like in mathematics.

In his view, the Apache language, which has only been spoken and lacks communication for a long time, is prone to ambiguity and ambiguity during use.This problem can be effectively solved by introducing some expressions from the mathematical language.

There is nothing more precise than mathematics.

In fact, he once considered introducing a large-scale mathematical language, including many mathematical symbols that have not yet been invented, but after trying it out, he found that the layout was too messy, so he gave up.

The update rules for language and characters have also been set. Since only Horse Whistle and Rainy Day understand this set of characters, there is only one very simple update rule: the consent of the two.

When more people learn it in the future, an "Apache Language Committee" can be formed to be responsible for revising the language.

"We have the text, how should we spread it?" Yu Tian said, "Call the tribe over, and we will explain it to them one by one?"

"Of course, this is an essential step." Ma Shao said, thinking for a while, "but I think we still need some auxiliary means."

"What aid?"

"You'll know in a few days." Ma Whistle chuckled and made a fool of himself.

The next morning.

Rainy Day and Horse Whistle gathered fifty or sixty young tribesmen in the open space in the middle of the camp, and planned to teach them the nascent Apache script.

"Tell you a piece of shocking good news." Rainy day looked at the more than 50 young students sitting in front with great interest, and there was uncontrollable excitement in his voice, "We invented - writing!!!"

He opened his arms, flushed like a passionate singer.

"..."

However, there was a burst of silence below.

The young people sitting on the ground looked blank, then looked at each other and talked a lot.

"Text, what is that?"

"seems very amazing……"

"I'm so hungry, I want to eat raw beef liver."

No one pays attention to the text at all. If it weren't for the fact that Rainy Day is the high priest and the horse post is an awesome warrior and craftsman, they wouldn't stay here honestly.

"Writing, it's writing, we invented writing, you—" The rainy day suddenly became a little anxious, but was quickly interrupted.

Ma Whistle patted him on the shoulder: "They won't understand now."

Rainy day sighed, then nodded: "You're right."

He no longer tried to make people understand the meaning of the words, but assumed the posture of a high priest, and took out a piece of paper with letters written on it.

"Look at the paper in my hand, there are 26 symbols written on it, and you must remember them, just like remembering your own fingers."

"Read it with me, ah, bo, ba, a, er, Buddha, brother..."

The young clansmen seemed to understand, but they knew that they should obey the orders of the high priest, so they followed suit.

In the next few days, Yutian and Ma Shao took turns as elementary school Chinese teachers, teaching the rules of pinyin and some application examples to these dozens of young tribesmen.

It has to be said that the "Chinese Pinyin Scheme" from 1958 is indeed a powerful set of schemes. Although its most suitable language is Chinese, it still shows active vitality after being combined with Apache.

After only a few days of study and training, the first batch of students have initially mastered the use of words, and some talented people can even express themselves in writing relatively fluently.

At this moment, Ma Shao appeared in class with a leather bag and a wooden board with a grid engraved on it, with a rather mysterious expression on his face.

"Mr. Horse Whistle, what is that?" The students couldn't help asking when they saw his expression.

The rainy day sitting aside also showed curiosity.

"I'll teach you how to play a game." Ma Whistle said, put the board in his hand on the ground, then opened the leather bag, and took out a stack of papers.There seems to be a lot of text written on the piece of paper, and some patterns are also drawn.

"Game?" People were even more curious.

The horse whistle casually pointed to a student to sit opposite him across the board, and then asked everyone to surround him, including the rainy day.

"This is a card. I have a total of sixty cards in this stack." Horse Whistle pulled out a piece of paper, on which a giant dragon was outlined with simple lines and colors.

"Blue...blue-eyed white dragon?" Some people recognized the writing on the piece of paper.

"I learned characters well, that's 'Blue Eyes White Dragon'." Ma Shao smiled.

These pieces of paper are the "Yu-Gi-Oh" cards he made, and many "Hearthstone" designs are also mixed.

Of course, whether it is compared with Yu-Gi-Oh or Hearthstone, the set he just designed is a low-profile version, or a youth version.

The pattern is very simple, the rules are greatly simplified, and the number of cards is only [-], but the text is more, the purpose is to help promote the text.

People in this age had few entertainments, especially among the Indians, and he believed that such novel games could arouse people's interest.

If you want to win in the game, you must understand the text description on the card, which plays a role in promoting text promotion.

The horse post has also added a lot of Indian elements, such as adding cards such as "Thunderbird", "Blessing of the Great Spirit", "Central Great Plains", "Tecumseh", and "Sequoia", as well as technological elements. Such as "railway", "warship".

Also designed some cards related to the United States, such as "American President Harrison", the main effect is "massacre": kill all Indian characters on the field; That is, death from pneumonia.

"The name of the game is 'Duel Cards'. The two sides follow the basic rules and card effects to duel. Whoever makes the opponent lose all his life first will be the winner of the duel." Ma Whistle continued.

"What are the rules?"

"Let's start with the duel field, which is this wooden board. Look at the grids on it. These grids are used to place character cards, and these are used to place item cards..."

"These small circles represent the life value. At the beginning of the game, stones are placed on them. Every time the life value is reduced by a little, a stone is removed. If all the stones are lost, the duel will fail."

After explaining the rules clearly, Ma Shuo looked at the student opposite him and said with a smile: "Okay, you already know the rules, now let's start the first duel."

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