Arcane Linguist

Chapter 108 Prospects for Contributions of Bronze Inscriptions

"You two, it's really a pleasure to meet you!"

Roland was not very good at expressing obvious favoritism, but when he greeted the two of them, he still showed a smile like a spring breeze.

In this way, he did not wink at the blind man.

Maybe the two of them had high emotional intelligence, or maybe they came here with the intention of making friends with him, and they both smiled and shook hands deliberately.

Well, hands are warm.

Warm him all day.

Then came some young arcanists at the teaching assistant level, famous experts among adventurers, blond travelers from different worlds, and reporters from "Arcane Bulletin", "Arcane Review" and other media.

The finale was several high-ranking arcanists at the level of experts and professors.

They are not members of the Cowrens family, but like Roland, they were specially invited to attend as second guests.

Several of them were familiar faces they had seen at the awards ceremony.

These are all senior figures who have achieved success and fame, and Roland dare not neglect them.

When seeing the last two people, Roland couldn't help being a little surprised.

Both of them have blue eyes, silver hair, and wheat-colored skin, like foreigners who came out of Two-dimensional.

One of them was wearing a small leather armor common to adventurers, but it was complicated in style and exquisite in workmanship, and it seemed that it was not something ordinary people could have.

Leon introduced: "This is the first heir to the Kingdom of Leiner, His Royal Highness Prince Silaire known as the 'Eagle'!"

Prince Siler looked about 15 or 6 years old, young, handsome, and full of vigor, but in this foreign land, surrounded by dignitaries from the suzerain country, he couldn't help but seem a little reserved.

Seeing Roland's gaze, he quickly stroked his chest and saluted.

"I have admired you for a long time, Your Excellency Roland, your reputation is as wide as the wind of the trade."

The other person is wearing a palace costume, a foreign beauty with elf-like long ears, delicate and beautiful, and touching.

She held her skirt and saluted, with a quiet and sweet voice: "I have seen Your Excellency Roland, your heroic appearance is like the luxuriance of a pine tree."

Leon introduced: "This is the sixth heir of the Reiner Kingdom, the older sister of His Royal Highness Prince Siler, and Her Royal Highness Princess Rosa who is known as 'the first beauty of the Reiner Kingdom' and the 'Reiner Rose'."

Roland nodded and said with a smile, "It's a pleasure to meet you."

But in his heart, he secretly approved that this Princess Rosa might have the blood of the elves, and this family has always been known for producing handsome men and beautiful women.

"Everyone, it's a great honor to invite Mr. Roland, a well-known expert in the arcane world and the new winner of the Morning Star Award, to our party today.

In this golden autumn and October, the new batch of mages have already entered the tower, and the arcane world is gearing up, ready to go, and is also preparing for the new year's research.

I am very grateful to Mr. Roland for bringing us such an excellent magical text like Oracle, which enabled us to be inspired and even successfully optimize and improve many spells and related magic applications in this field..."

Leon praised the business, and quickly gave up the opportunity to speak to everyone present.

With a smile on his face, Roland listened to everyone's enthusiastic speeches and expressed their opinions freely.

Since the topic is limited to Oracle and related applications, everyone is also proactive in front of the founder Roland, waiting to get any valuable advice from him after talking about his field and direction.

Even Scudder and Yiwen talked a little bit about their own research.

This means taking an oath of sovereignty, declaring that we have already taken the lead in enclosing the land here, so how much do you think if you want to compete.

Fortunately, at this time, the field of Seris is still a blue ocean. Everyone is enjoying themselves, united and friendly, and there is no involution yet.

Bu Nuo and Pi Miller did not disappoint Roland, they have already started to attack the results like Pano did.

And it seems that the results have already been produced, and it is precisely at this time that the announcement is made.

The reporters who came found the news materials, snapped photos, and recorded their speeches.

Bu Nuo said: "Thank you for Mr. Roland's course. Thanks to this, my recent research has progressed rapidly. I have completed the complete oracle bone culture of the 0-level spell "Secret Imprint" and the spelling of Siris simultaneously, and submitted it.

If all goes well, it will soon appear in the "Secret Seal" journal..."

This turned out to be the result of cipher literature!

Even Roland was a little surprised when he heard the words. They had done related 0-level spells before, but they were only part of the improvement of Oracle Bone Culture.

But his progress can be called "Seres Secret Seal Technique"!

Pimiller said: "What I'm doing is the oracle bone inscription-based research on the base of the magic circle. Although there are no concrete results yet, I have published the relevant theories in the "Journal of Magic Circle..."

Everyone was surprised, even Roland was a little surprised.

Talent, indeed talent!

This silent person has actually deduced the relevant results to the point where it is now.

The base of the magic circle is the key to the magic circle, which is tantamount to opening up a new battlefield in the field of oracle bone inscription magic.

He was very interested in this, and wrote a few key points in private, preparing to talk about his views on these two fields.

After everyone made a round of announcements, it was finally Roland's turn.

Amid the thunderous applause, Roland got up, walked to the podium, and started talking about what he just recorded.

At this time, he also has a relatively deep understanding of the arcane. After all, he often contacts high-level people like his teachers Orvisto and Lunifus, even if he just parrots and brings out some of their opinions. Showing off can scare a lot of people.

What's more, he is recognized as the chief authoritative expert and has a profound background (information) in the field of natural language.

But when everyone thought that he was still focusing his time and energy on inscriptions and inscriptions, he changed the subject and said: "Next, I will mainly conduct research on bronze inscriptions and their inscription culture.

In recent days, I have finished compiling (transporting) the "Jin Wen Bian", and I am about to contribute to "Arcane" to complete the creation of another writing system..." (Note: In fact, it is still in the same system, but here be separated)

Bronze inscriptions are inscriptions on bells and tripods that originated in the Yin, Shang and Zhou dynasties.

From the content point of view, it is a valuable material for studying the history from the Shang Dynasty to the Warring States Period. It records some major historical events, as well as chapters praising the achievements of ancestors and princes. At the beginning, the bronze inscriptions referred to the entire article, not a single word.

In 1925, Mr. Rong Geng compiled the "Jin Wen Bian", and since then Jin Wen has become a calligraphy style name.

From a linguistic point of view, being able to record historical events and sing praises is a sign of an increasing tendency towards linguistics.

During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, classical Chinese, the real written language for recording, was born.

In fact, ancient Chinese has been used the longest and has the most abundant materials, or traditional Chinese characters and classical Chinese.

Roland is laying the groundwork for inventing (moving) them.

For later generations, although "wen" and "character" are often mentioned together, they are actually completely different systems.

The original Chinese characters, a single character itself expresses rich meanings and contains high-density information.

There is no need to go back to the rope knot, hexagram image and book contract. The clues can be seen only from the different writing methods of the character "che" in the oracle bone inscriptions.

Some cars are broken axles, some cars are turned upside down, and there are rich meanings in themselves.

A word is itself an article.

It is actually "text".

But this kind of thing has few words but broad meaning, and it is far away from the language, so it is not easy to write an article, but it is easy to be distorted and misunderstood.

With the development of the times, the ancients used more new characters to form words, more words to make sentences, and more sentences to write articles...

Although classical Chinese is famous for its conciseness, it has actually undergone many developments and evolutions in style, and the embellishments have become more flashy and impersonal.

This forced Han Yu, Liu Zongyuan and others in the Tang Dynasty to advocate the "Ancient Prose Movement" and return to popular ancient prose.

Then after the New Culture Movement, vernacular Chinese became obsolete and classical Chinese was eliminated, and another spiral took place.

This has the characteristics that modern spoken language and written language are very close.

By this time, the technique of the article and the presentation of the intention have been quite different from the previous writing forms.

In a word, language is constantly evolving and changing.

Its general tendency has always been towards convenience rather than richness or accuracy.

For example, for words such as the finale, tomorrow's yellow flowers, groundless rumors, etc., everyone prefers literal interpretations rather than exploring their deep meanings and tracing their roots.

The pronunciation of Yiqi Hongchen Concubine Xiao, the distinction of land, etc., will also tend to be popular choices, simplified or merged.

In the Internet age, Martian characters, emoticons, pinyin shortcodes, industry slang, slang words, etc. are flooded.

This follows the law of entropy increase in physics, and it takes effort to do work and maintain it in order to rectify the source.

If left unchecked, it will inevitably become simple, plain and chaotic.

Everyone was a little confused when they heard this.

"So, Mr. Roland, your prediction is that the magical resonance efficiency of the bronze inscriptions will be lower than that of the oracle bone inscriptions?"

"Exactly, yes!"

"Then why do you want to launch it even though you know it?"

"I did this, of course, with my deep meaning.

According to my prediction, Seris has been developing (transported) backwards, and will gradually be on par with other high magic languages, or still maintain some slightly high 'meaning'.

But please don't forget that simply talking about the efficiency of magic resonance doesn't actually have much practical significance.

Resonance rate is an important indicator of magic, but it is never the only indicator. It also depends on the flexible combination of spells, the structure of the article, the use of grammar, etc...

Some time ago, my friend Poytes' magical modification of the "No Clothes" battle song was used as an example, using a lot of singing skills, which are far more lengthy and complicated than ordinary spells, and require higher concentration.

This is a stacking effect of meaning, which is a cumulative gradual change. There are also super magic skills such as harmony, chorus and singing, to achieve group common spellcasting!

Unlike the effect of the battle song, the effect of many spells can only emerge at the moment the spell is completed.

It just so happens that the 'signifier' and 'signified' in structural linguistics, as well as the signifier chain formed between them, correspond to this relationship.

A signifier does not correspond to a fixed signified, there is a slip between them, and only when the chain stops sliding, or the moment the signifier chain is interrupted, can the 'meaning' be clarified. "

When Roland said this, he suddenly smiled and said, "It may not be intuitive for me to say this, let me give you an example."

He pointed to Princess Rosa of the Reiner Kingdom next to him: "This, mother-in-law, no, man!"

Everyone listened, frowning slightly.

Why did he stop talking, gasping for breath, and scolding people.

Rosa's complexion turned pale, she didn't know how she offended the lord of the suzerain country.

But he immediately continued: "Nine days..."

In the culture of Arterine, there is a saying of the Nine Heavens, which is probably what he meant by the Nine Heavens.

But to mention this suddenly, the turning point is too big, right?

I was still yelling at people just now.

"Fairy……"

There are sayings such as forest fairies, goblins and fairies.

This fairy is that fairy.

"Down to the mortal world!"

Huh?
Everyone was dumbfounded.

Combining the context and context to analyze, it means to praise before suppressing, and to praise others.

Then there are actually "all children and grandchildren are thieves" and "stolen peaches are offered to mothers".

But under different historical cultures and situations, it is not easy for Roland to copy, so he will stop there.

But when it comes to this, everyone already understands the meaning of his example just now.

When each word appears, the direction of meaning is constantly moving and changing.

At first, when he said "this," one might think he meant to say "this princess" or "this lady" or something.

As a result, the next sentence is the relatively vulgar and weird word "mother", which seems a bit inexplicable.

But at last, it can be heard clearly, pointing to this "person".

However, the "no" seems to be unsatisfactory.

What is she not?

Not us Art Rhines?
Not a mage?

Not a beauty?

Before he finished speaking, it was difficult for everyone to understand what he was really referring to, and they could only rely on guesswork, or even subconscious reactions.

It wasn't until he finished speaking that he could confirm that she was not human!

The same is true for the next sentence, which is reversed to the fact that she is a fairy descending to the mortal world.

If there is a reversal in the future, then the reversal is the same.

This will never stop.

"Thus, the spellcasting of the bards emphasizes the process, while the spellcasting of the arcanists emphasizes the result. (There are also fusions of intermediate states)

Both involve 'meaning' and 'resonance', but the underlying principles are not the same.

But in any case, incantations or poems have no meaning in themselves, it is people who give them meaning.

Whether we write articles or cast magic, we must pay attention to the meaning of the text first. If the meaning is in place, the order of Chinese characters may not necessarily affect reading!
Therefore, I invented (transported) bronze inscriptions to simplify oracle bone inscriptions, to make them more colloquial, and to better output 'meaning'! "

Everyone in the audience was slightly stunned, but suddenly realized, thunderous applause!

Princess Rosa of the Kingdom of Lena even blushed her palms, and her eyes sparkled.

(End of this chapter)