Arcane Linguist

Chapter 130 The text conveys the truth, Wumo's novel "The Romance of Siris"!
"Hurry up, it's about to start."

In the great hall, in the Iser Mage Tower, the mages of the Rune School invited friends and came to listen to the lecture.

When entering the arena, the junior assistant coach Dylant finally found the area where he was seated, and saw a few former classmates, and friends who are now stationed in the tower together greeted him inside.

One of the girls, Di Jiali, who was wearing glasses, was quite complaining: "Why are you here now?"

"Sorry, there were too many people at the scene, and I almost got lost."

Dylan wiped his sweat.

"You kid, you must be reluctant to part with the experiment at hand, and only came here when it was over. Forget it, sit down quickly, this time is a rare opportunity."

"Yes, everyone has always wanted to know how Mr. Roland created such unconstrained results. This time, maybe we finally have a chance to get a glimpse of it."

"I'm really envious. If only I could have one-tenth...no, one-hundredth of the results."

……

At the same time, Castle Island.

"That guy Roland actually went to Iser to give a lecture!"

In a room like a medieval castle, Cynthia murmured to herself with a look of disbelief on her face.

She bought the qualification ticket to watch the live broadcast early on. Seeing that it was almost 10 o'clock, she quickly put up a pillow, half-lyed on the bed, and entered the state of concentration required to connect to the live broadcast of Magic Network with spiritual meditation.

Suddenly, an imaginary ring-shaped large square seemed to appear in her mind, a huge space that could accommodate more than 10 people appeared.

A huge podium suddenly appeared on the high platform in the center of the front, illuminated by several beams of bright lights.

Surrounded by fellow mages who are also connected here with the spirit of the magic net, they present half-empty and half-real gray and white figures, which seem to have a ghostly feeling.

It is the projection of the spirits of the people here, and it is said that it uses the virtual reality technology brought by Hallmyer's mage's tower.

……

City of the Sky, Nieves, in the Autodox Guild Hall.

Gallo, Oxea and a group of members of the school who are deeply hostile to the Selis Language Joint Research Association also prepared early, meditating quietly and entering a state of concentration.

With a trance like deep sleep, the mind is immersed in darkness.

When each of them slowly opened their eyes, it was already like a dream.

Gallo saw figures in the huge space ahead, constantly appearing.

As the saying goes, "If you know yourself and your opponent clearly, you won't lose even if you fight a hundred times." This time, they bought tickets seriously and planned to listen to this lecture carefully.

As a result, he logged into the magic net, entered the live broadcast room, and saw the room full of virtual people, all of them turned dark.

The live broadcast of this lecture is not open to the public, it only serves the group of arcane circles and mages stationed in the tower.

This popularity is far more prosperous than expected.

……

More and more people joined.

Here, everyone can only vaguely see the hazy figures around them, and there is no way to tell who is beside them.

But this kind of place was not given to them to communicate and interact, and it happened to focus all their attention on the podium.

The host has already given a lecture there, introducing many contents of this live broadcast to everyone in accordance with the standard procedure of arcane lectures.

Finally, after the basic introduction, he said with enthusiasm, "Now, please invite the chief authoritative expert of Seres, the founder of the oracle bone inscriptions, bronze inscriptions and Seris pinyin scheme, and the winner of the Morning Star Award...Mr. Roland!"

Amid thunderous applause, Roland walked up.

Thanks to the fact that he often gave speeches on stage as an outstanding student representative in his previous life, he is quite experienced in this kind of thing. Even in the face of tens of thousands of audiences and 10 people in Mowang Online, he is still full of spirits and has no stage fright.

"Everyone, my lords, my lords, hello.

It is a great honor to be invited by Isel's Mage Tower..."

Some courteous remarks on the scene, explaining the reason for the visit and the lecture.

These people have more or less heard about it, and they don't care much, so they quickly skip it.

Soon, we started to get down to business.

"The topic I want to talk about here today is the relationship between historical and cultural heritage and language.

As arcanists of the rune school, and mages who use speech, posture and other spell components as important elements of casting spells, everyone must be proficient in linguistics.

Extending to the outside, everyone here and everyone living in this subcontinent cannot do without speech and writing in their daily life.

But here, I want to ask you a question, that is, what exactly is language, its essence, and how should it be defined? "

Everyone heard the words and had no doubts, and soon someone on the scene gave an accurate answer.

"It's meaning!"

Roland smiled slightly and said, "There's nothing wrong, it's the meaning!"

"Language itself is just a tool, and linguistics is the study of this tool.

In the final analysis, it and the results they are associated with are the meanings they point to.

The language we usually speak, in a broad sense, includes speech and writing, but whether it is from the initial knotting, mural painting, or the language created by various nations, countries, and species, it is essentially to carry meaning ,Send message.

If a language cannot carry meaning and convey information, then it is unnecessary to exist, so we can think that language is a container for carrying meaning, which is the so-called text to carry Tao! "

On the large podium, Roland made this conclusion in a sonorous and unquestionable tone.

From symbolic and symbolic contracts, to express the meaning of the image, to convey the truth, to classical Chinese, and then to the vernacular used in modern times, Chinese characters and the articles composed of them have also undergone a long period of spiral development.

The general trend is getting closer and closer to colloquialism, where writing and language are combined.

But its essence remains unchanged.

No matter the subtle classics, or the saliva of Che Zhilu.

It's just the size of the container, the material, and the meaning of the container.

He slowed down a bit, and with the expressions of everyone on the scene and offline who seemed to be enlightened or full of expectation, he continued: "Please note that the transfer referred to here includes the transfer of situations and time and space, which is derived from the language. Situationality can be reflected.

But contextuality is not the essence of language, nor is it its only ability.

We assume that there is a creature proficient in spiritual magic that can spread information among the group by relying on their own ideas. Their group also has the possibility to create language and replace it in some aspects, and words are more important. It is the sound Solidification can transcend time and space and condense the achievements of civilization. "

After making these foreshadowings, "Writing to convey the truth" became the argument of Roland's speech.

Then, Roland began to elaborate further: "Since this is the case, the language should be used, what meaning it can be used to carry, what information to convey, or in other words, what way to convey, has become the top priority.

From the perspective of a mage, it is of course not difficult to conclude that it is for magical runes, spells, and ciphertexts, secret seals, etc., for casting spells! "

When talking about this, Roland couldn't help complaining secretly.

To be honest, Faye are much more straightforward.

Magic is their "way".

Whether a language is good or not depends entirely on the results of magic, and everything else is imaginary.

"Different from direct telepathy, the input and output interface of language lies in word of mouth and reading with eyes, so it can be divided into pre-linguistic thinking, linguistic thinking, and super-linguistic thinking..."

For Blue Star in his previous life, these things were only the contents of the undergraduate-level "Introduction to Linguistics", but they could be regarded as the essence of the subject's achievements. For the mages of many magical civilizations on the scene, they were also enough to bring some shocking new knowledge.

Most people are aware of the value contained in it, subconsciously hold their breath, and become more focused.

The relationship between thinking, psychology and language mentioned by Roland here, including mother tongue interference, language expression level, etc., all prove that the truth that language can carry is very limited, which is the limitation of language.

This can explain many phenomena such as "silence is better than sound at this time", "words are not enough", "no words can express" and so on.

When Sakyamuni taught the Dharma, he still couldn't fully express his meaning, but when he smiled, Kasyapa became enlightened.

In short, smart people understand.

Not understanding is not a smart person.

But linguists can't stop there, and must combine arcane principles such as psychology and thinking consciousness to figure out why this limitation exists and how to break through it.

Roland said: "Let's talk about the text first.

Except for Braille, which relies on touch, and magic runes, which rely on spiritual resonance, and other special methods, most natural characters are expressed by glyphs, so its shape and strokes are the basis for identification...

This is why the original characters came from pictograms.

Among the six books of Sailis, the fourth is the method of creating characters, including pictograms, referring to things, knowing, and pictograms... Pictograms are the most direct and primitive methods.

Let's talk about speech, regardless of the magical spell, the transmission of sound, from the lips to the ears, is bound to be affected by one's own thinking, and there is a certain amount of information interference and loss.

We can tentatively think that this is the root cause of the resonance rate gap between different magic languages!

The same person, the same thinking activity and expressive ability, excluding the influence of interference factors such as the situation and emotional fluctuations at the time, only looking at the differences between languages, the ability to carry and transmit information obtained is the resonance in the sense of magic Rate benchmarks!

But no matter what, the language and writing itself also contained everything that the caster could recognize.

Language itself is magic, which has nothing to do with high or low magic or energy or rules. What it is related to is everything that bursts out of the thinking activities of our intelligent creatures, and it is the embodiment of the spiritual self!

Individuals like this, the field of groups, can be called the embodiment of civilization.

Therefore, I think that the way they carry and convey is civilization itself! "

At this moment, Roland unified speech, writing, thinking consciousness, wisdom achievements, and civilization.

He himself is also feeling that the content that has never appeared in Blue Star in his previous life, the key that modern linguistics cannot break through, is about to come out...

"So, we have to break through the limitations of the language itself, and further resonate with mana and the rules of heaven and earth. To a large extent, it depends on the size of the 'Tao', that is, the margin of civilization!
Just like a person, the richer the knowledge and experience, the stronger the spiritual world, the easier it is to exercise one's expressive ability, or use some precise and vivid words to carry the information you want to convey.

The level of the audience is too low, leading to the impact of 'high and few' is another matter.

Facing the same thing, ordinary people in the lower city may only use a vulgar word like 'my grass' to express it.

When the enemy comes, it’s my fault, if the roof of my house is blown away by the strong wind, it’s my fault, if the child steals someone’s mother, it’s also my fault..."

When it came to this, the whole room roared with laughter.

But if you think about it, it really is.

There is no way to express a thousand words, and the vast majority of common people in the lower urban area want to say something, so they can only express it with monotonous and repetitive words.

"Of course, sometimes, it has nothing to do with knowledge. It's just that there are some things that cannot be expressed in words and can only be summed up in one sentence..."

Roland made a small patch here to prevent a certain sect of bullying.

"For biological individuals, due to the influence of temperament, interest, background, living habits, etc., this relationship is not strictly corresponding, and even because of super-linguistic thinking, some high-intelligence groups will appear dull and reticent. The phenomenon of the heart, it can be seen that the expressive ability and the richness of the spiritual world do not show an absolute proportional relationship.

Maybe, some mage friends who are taciturn, actually have too much reason for comprehension, and language is a tool that cannot bear it.

And a guy like me who talks so much on the stage is actually empty inside, just perfunctory? "

When everyone heard it, they couldn't help laughing knowingly.

Of course no one feels that way.

"However……"

Roland suddenly changed the topic and said seriously.

"Individuals are affected by various deviations, and there may be such a phenomenon of inconsistency in the degree of surplus and language richness, but groups do not exist!
A country, or in other words, a civilization, contains billions of billions of individuals, countless talented people with lofty ideals, brilliant achievements are there, and it has gone through thousands of years of vicissitudes and ups and downs...

From the perspective of statistical probability alone, the influence of those individual deviation factors will also be reduced to an extremely low level!

Unless the law of large numbers in probability is wrong, otherwise, this kind of thing will not happen! "

The Theorem of Large Numbers is one of the basic theorems of probability theory and mathematical statistics, and of course it holds true in this arcane world.

When everyone heard the words, they had to accept the fact that this was indeed the case.

If a civilization is compared to an individual, then the richer its "learning experience" is, the richer its "spiritual world" will be.

The stronger its expressive ability will be, the closer the language tool will be to perfection!
Conversely, it can also be said that if language tools are not good enough, they cannot carry enough knowledge and information to help the development of civilization.

It's like all kinds of magic in the wizarding world...

Regardless of magic, in the process of historical development, a civilization tends to have more and more precise expressions of vocabulary and gorgeous poetry.

All kinds of literary works jointly build a huge collective wisdom achievement!
哪怕言语和文字只能承载其中一二分，1万的1%是100，1亿的1%是100万……

By analogy, ample spiritual abundance will also form a complete and self-consistent small world!
This... is the projection of civilization!

Roland looked at it with a dagger, and threw out his own conclusion.

"So, when the enemy comes, it's dark clouds overwhelming the city; when the roof is blown away, the thatched huts are destroyed by the autumn wind; when a child steals someone's mother, it's green...

All these, if there is room, there must be resonance!

In my opinion, with only language and words, it is possible to uphold the fictional creation concept advocated by the overhead school, and deduce one after another magnificent and peculiar overhead world.

In the arcane world, there has never been a lack of people exploring magic such as dream-making or virtual reality, and the precious Iser school is a model of it..."

When they heard this, everyone couldn't help being surprised, and immediately had different reactions.

"I see, Mr. Roland also supports and agrees with our school's ideas!"

"Will the Siris magic system also produce spells in the dream realm in the future?"

"Is he going to fall into the school of overheadism?"

The people of the Autodoklas school frowned even more.

"Whether it is for expressing emotions, reasoning, or simply showing one's imagination, using words, reciting, singing, writing essays, and fussing with words is a kind of creation.

Many literary styles, at their root, are projections of the real world, and this has something in common with dreaming.

The creative method I use benefits from my own knowledge and inspiration, and is deduced and fictionalized according to the relevant rules of the world..."

"Isn't this the 'dream deduction method' of our Iser school?"

"Mr. Roland is indeed one of our esotericists!"

"The Triumph of the Paradoxist..."

Everyone in Iser was secretly happy.

At this moment, they finally understood why Mr. Roland had such rich imagination and creativity, and finally understood where his achievements came from.

In a nutshell, his spiritual energy has ample surplus, and this surplus, when exposed to the outside, becomes those arcane achievements.

The faces of the members of the Autodox school were solemn and silent.

In the VIP room on the other side, Lunephth accompanied the king, queen and other members of the royal family to watch, but she was smiling and admiring.

"This kind of trait is indeed a rare talent!"

Roland continued: "I've heard about the dream ability of the Iser Rune School for a long time, but dreams also need to rely on these spiritual powers and the results of reality mapping to build them. I will officially start a series of 'Dreams Back to Siris' here. For engineering projects, colleagues with lofty ideals from all walks of life and mage friends who are interested in the Seris School are sincerely invited to participate!
This project is essentially based on the "No-Magic Novel" "The Romance of Seris" I created, and entrusted Master Yiser to create a dream world..."

The dream ability possessed by the Yisel mage tower is a strange power derived from the Yisel runes.

Roland also said before that the input and output interfaces of speech and text are the mouth, ears, hands and eyes.

But after the language is magical, the runes and spells produced are different.

They are all existences that can directly touch spiritual power.

Top-level language magic achievements, such as runes and spells derived from elf language and dragon language, have a resonance rate of over 95%, which already has a certain "telepathy" and "idea transmission" capabilities!

This is the unique development route of magic civilization. If it is replaced by technology, it is probably a brain-computer interface.

Roland believes that it is the key to excavating "pre-linguistic thinking" and "super-linguistic thinking", and to a greater extent the key to realizing the meaning of words.

It just so happens that mental activities such as dreams and subconsciousness are closely related to this. If we can use the dream ability of the Iser School to connect the achievements in these aspects, we will definitely be able to build a link between the Iser School and the Seris School. A real bridge to each other.

When Lunifers heard this, she immediately realized what Roland was referring to when he said "make a fool of himself".

The corners of her mouth curled up slightly, and she became interested in the "no-magic novel" "The Romance of Siris" that Roland mentioned.

"No magic novel?"

"What is this?"

"I don't know, it's probably a genre of surrealist novels like knight novels or magic novels..."

Fiction is something no stranger to fictionalists, and it is also an inevitable product of language development to a certain stage.

Roland's inscriptions and oracle inscriptions had brought the seeds of the narrative in Seres to the world, and the "Book of Songs", which had been glimpsed at a glimpse, also showed the achievements of poetry and poetry.

Then during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the birth of a hundred schools of thought should have sprouted.

It was a very important star-studded period in the history of Chinese civilization. Many schools and thoughts that had a profound influence on later generations for more than 500 years can find their roots in it.

Because the novel is a small way, it is not valued by the world, but it also has a certain status in the entire history of literature.

Roland once thought about how to solve the problem of systematic transportation and copying books to preach.

If everything is adapted to the magical world and overly localized, such as forcibly mixing "Qiang people" and "sheep-headed people", Shang Wang's sacrifice to ghosts and gods, and religious beliefs in the magical world, it will lose its original meaning;
At the other extreme, regardless of 21, forcible copying is easy to be questioned and criticized.

It's like a magician crossing over to Blue Star, and he has to use magic in the name of a magic show...

He intends to use novels and stories as containers to carry the historical and cultural soil he carries!
You think I'm writing a novel, telling a story?

In fact, what I write is the real world, recording real history!
With this kind of container, the handling efficiency is greatly improved. If there is any fruit in the future, it can be taken from it at any time, and there is no longer the risk of being rootless.

This kind of "container" can carry almost everything, and it will also be the basis for his writing to convey Tao!

Whether it is the things you want to record, the emotions you convey, the knowledge you carry, or anything else, they can all be transferred in this way.

What, the things inside are too realistic to look like fakes. I doubt that there really is such a civilization called Siris?

Thank you, this is the greatest compliment you can give a novelist.

"The text conveys the truth...

"The Romance of Siris"..."

Jia Luo seemed to be touched, and the legendary destiny in the dark made him feel a kind of threat coming to his face.

"This thing is his path-carrying device?"

(End of this chapter)