Arcane Linguist

Chapter 165 The Beginning Temptation (seeking a monthly pass)

"Master, good morning!"

In Nieves City, in the villa, Roland came out of the bedroom on the third floor.

Al, who had already gotten up and prepared everything, greeted him cheerfully, and then ordered the servants downstairs to put out the prepared breakfast.

Roland finished washing in the bathroom upstairs first, and when he went down to the small dining room, everything was just ready, so he ate breakfast with the "Nieves Daily".

Reading newspapers or surfing the magic net while eating is a bad habit. Roland advocates a healthy life, so of course he would not do that.

His choice was to let the fox-eared lady with a melodious voice read the newspaper to him.

Read all the more important titles, and choose to read through if you hear something you are interested in.

After this breakfast was finished, Roland put on a medieval-style classical mage robe, put on a high-brimmed hat commonly used by gentlemen, and walked out of the gate with a civilized stick in his hand.

"Tch, your outfit is so old-fashioned, it looks like an antique."

In the small building not far away, Trina yawned and sneered by the window.

"What do you know, the high-level executives of Arterine advocate this set, which is the so-called mainstream value."

There is a saying that when you go to the country, you do as the Romans do. In such a place, Roland also pays great attention to his own image.

This outfit was custom-made by a tailor in order to come to Nieves City to work, and it cost more than 100 gold coins.

This classic attire of an old-age mage can make up for his youthful image defects to a certain extent.

Because it was still early, Roland walked slowly towards the park.

The dog-eared lady and the rabbit-eared lady followed behind faithfully and accompanied him for a few laps.

Afterwards, Roland went to the editorial department of "Rune", while the two beast ear girls went to the nearby market to investigate and purchase.

Originally living in the mage's tower, there is a special person in charge of all logistical matters. If you rent in such a high-end place, you can also have special personnel to serve you.

But because they are newcomers, Al still ordered them to go to a nearby market for investigation and visits, trying to know what they knew.

She is a good succubus of "thrifty housekeeping".

……

More than ten minutes later, Roland came to the editorial department of "Rune".

"Mr. Roland, good morning!"

"Good morning."

The staff saw him and greeted him one after another.

Responding while walking, Roland entered an office on the second floor inside.

It was quiet around, not many people came, and this situation lasted until after 10 o'clock.

Not only Lei et al., who are the official editors, but also his assistant, Georg, came late.

"Mr. Roland, good morning, why are you here?"

He was a little surprised to find Roland.

"It's nothing, I'm new here, just get used to the environment."

"You are really hardworking." Qiao Ge, who came to work after 10 o'clock, sincerely admired him.

Roland talked with him for a while, and asked the other party to deal with the work that needs to be handed over, and try to solve it before getting off work today.

Then I came to the large terrace on the second floor, sitting in the sun enjoying the warm winter sun, thinking while drinking tea.

He had a detailed discussion with Georg yesterday and learned the difference between a full-time editor and a special expert.

The mage class in Arterine generally implements a duty rotation system, and has the practice of flexible work.

Everyone performs their own duties, relying on the institutional workflow to ensure the quality of the review.

Only then did he realize that the mages of Alterain really deserved to be the ruling class, and the real ruling class knew how to enjoy life.

In a sense, Alteraine is the mage's ideal country, and this kind of treatment has political considerations.

The job of a mage is to learn, and lifelong learning and growth is the goal. Work is only a necessary means to apply what you have learned, and it has nothing to do with making a living or serving the empire.

Therefore, the working environment is very relaxed and comfortable for the various positions arranged for official mages.

This is a highly developed society ruled by law. It is obviously not feasible to call on the members of the school under the command to engage in involution and work hard.

This is not the right way to fight for the right to speak.

Even if I have the ability to get a few more members of the school to come over and work 24 hours a day, I still can't control the power of the "Rune" editorial department.

"The power to review manuscripts is actually determined by both institutional standards and one's own academic status, and what matters is the right to speak, as well as the reputation and reputation of the arcane community.

Fortunately, as the chief authoritative expert of Seres, my professionalism is guaranteed. In theory, I have the final interpretation power in related fields.

There should be no need to worry about some contests in terms of arcane achievements. "

Roland looked at himself to see whether he would encounter all kinds of difficulties and harsh criticisms because he was too young or lacking qualifications, and found that there was actually nothing to worry about in this regard.

In the world of arcane arts, the things to compete are too simple.

Are you not satisfied?
Take a look at the results.

Let's see the level of the Arcanist!

Uh, this one doesn't work, this one has only been promoted to senior lecturer for the time being, and there is still a long way to go to the high level.

The official editors of the "Runes" editorial department are basically high-level mages with the title of associate professor.

As far as the current rotation is concerned, no one who appears in front of him is inferior to him.

When something happens, it’s better to talk about the results.

In addition, it is more important to know and employ people, and to cultivate talents.

It is impossible for me to stay here all the time, even if I stay here, it is impossible not to take vacations, transfers, or part-time jobs.

In the arcane world of Arterine, it is very common to be transferred to other journals, or to take charge of some affairs entrusted by the committee, and then encounter various things of withdrawing and leaving...

A professional talent who has won an important achievement award and has an outstanding academic status will be the guarantee for him to maintain the right to speak in "Runes"!
Thinking of this, Roland looked through the balcony and into the office.

Georg is busy with the tasks he arranged.

"Can this person be of use to me?

And...recommend Georg's Leu itself! "

He was thoughtful.

……

In the afternoon, Victor, Lei, and Anna arrived and led the members of their respective teams to process the manuscript.

Roland found out that in order to adapt to the final review and official publication date of the "Arcane" journal, the editorial department of "Runes" adopts the same work schedule as the peer journal "Magic".

Generally speaking, the manuscripts submitted every month will be reviewed within ten days, and will be reviewed before the end of the month, and the final review will be performed around the 8th.

This is to facilitate some rechecks and typesetting of confirmed manuscripts.

And from now on, as always, people have already contributed.

Roland didn't need to be responsible for the initial handling, and even Georg didn't have to do it himself, but the following clerks were in charge.

They will read all the manuscripts first, roughly classify and organize them, and keep them on file.

They do not have the authority to review manuscripts. They do this only to pick out the manuscripts and send them to the corresponding editor's group.

And when it arrives, the real processing begins.

"Mr. Roland, these are the few manuscripts that have been accumulated recently. If you have time, you can deal with them first. They were delivered today, and I will hand them over to you when the time comes."

When Roland thought so, Georg arrived with several thick manuscripts.

These are articles related to Seres, submitted to "Runes".

"Seres Word Formation and Root Attribute Analysis"

"A Study on the Meaning of the Character 'Car' in Oracle Bone Inscriptions"

"A New Kind of Cyris-like Symbol System"

……

"Sure enough, there are already some Celesian-related submissions."

It was the first time for Roland to read these papers as a reviewer, and he found it quite interesting.

However, not everyone is able to understand and use the Seris language easily as he himself has been influenced by the long history and cultural heritage of Seris.

For the mages of Altrein, this is a new type of script, and it is also a very difficult script to learn.

Listening, listening, reading and writing all require special training.

So until now, some middle and high-level mages are trying to conduct research and analysis. For low-level mages, they can only receive education honestly.

Among them, most of them are "translating" the original magical achievements of the school of magic.

For this type of results, the journal has received many internally, and it is customary to hand them over to Victor for processing.

Roland has not seen those papers for the time being, and most of the papers received from him are theoretical ones.

"Root, attribute?"

"This is fundamentally taking the old path of the development of the Atlas language.

This article tries to analyze Seresian language with agglutinative language, grammatical structure of inflectional language, and word formation methods, but in fact, it is an analytical language that does not pay attention to the internal morphological changes of words at all, but independently function words and fixed words to express grammatical meaning.

This kind of language lacks the change of style, but it has rich artistic conception. "

As for the next two articles, Roland feels that they are acceptable, and they can be regarded as an expanded research and analysis of the Siris School.

When he was reviewing, he deliberately left Georg to comment in front of him.

Georg had some understanding of the Selis language, and when he heard Roland's words, he also took it for granted.

"So far, too many people still confuse it with the expressions of Elvish or Alterian, but in fact, even ancient Elvish and modern Elvish have a tendency to gradually evolve into analysis-dominated... …

For example, it is a different word to express cow and cow, and cooked beef is another word, but in fact, like Seres, all of them use the word cow as the basic element of word formation. Tons of new words! "

"That's right, in fact, at the beginning of the development of Seris, it also contained some words with this kind of characteristics.

For example, a foal is a young horse, a gallant is a good horse, and a gelding is a castrated horse...

This way of expression has both advantages and disadvantages, which cannot be generalized.

But in the general trend, in order to meet the needs of development, it is inevitable to change to a more simple and understandable way of forming words.

In this regard, various languages ​​actually have a similar development process..."

Georg suddenly remembered something: "Mr. Roland, in fact, I also had an idea recently, that is, whether it is possible to redefine the Atlas language by adopting the language method and grammatical structure of Seris?"

He briefly described his thoughts, which turned out to be similar to Chinglish, Good good study, day day up!

The first thing to declare is that this way of expression is completely inconsistent with traditional English habits, and it may cause difficulties in understanding when communicating with native English speakers, but in fact, after the convention is established, it is also simple and easy to understand , very popular.

Chinglish is originally an irregular English, such as add oil, lose face, and even some controversial words like long time no see. It is not sure whether it belongs to Chinglish, but an undeniable fact is that, With the deepening of international trade and cultural exchanges, the mutual influence is getting deeper and deeper, and they will be recognized one day. These can also be viewed as formal traditional English.

And now, the Seris language invented (transported) by Roland has changed the Atlas language in a certain sense.

The arcane world of Alteraine has always been distressed by the confusion and failure of this language, and at the same time worried about the increasing thickness of the dictionary.

They either choose to use more vocabulary to express similar meanings, such as medium-rare steak, medium-rare steak, and medium-rare... or they use more lengthy and awkward sentences, adding a lot of redundant words to express. .

It's not that no one has tried to simplify, but it wasn't until Roland brought them the Seris language that it was fully proved that this road might really work!
Of course, it is definitely not an easy task to transform the Alterian language and gain wide recognition from the arcane community.

The biggest disadvantage of this language is that it has too much historical baggage, which is already a bit hard to get back.

In this way, Roland and Georg felt that they had benefited a lot from discussing arcane issues while reviewing the manuscript.

Speaking of which, the city of Nevis really deserves to be the arcane center of Arterine, especially in such a periodical department, where the knowledge and inspiration that can be accessed are the most abundant.

Being able to perform duties in such a place is already a sign of being reused.

At this moment, the sound of the teleportation array running sounded.

Another manuscript was submitted.

"Mr. Roland, you have a new manuscript pending review.

Rune School, Linguistics, Philology, Calligraphy...

Please complete the preliminary review within 24 hours and submit the preliminary review opinion. "

Roland took the manuscript with a bit of curiosity, and read it, but just after reading the title, he showed surprise.

This turned out to be grass... an article about the ugly book!

Have they systematized it and explored its application as a magical structure?
"Mr. Roland, what's the matter?"

Georg, who was talking with Roland, saw the change in his expression, and asked curiously.

Roland immediately told him what he had found.

"It turned out to be an ugly book by someone from the Autodox School?"

"Hehe, this is really difficult for me, this Autodox school has caused me a lot of trouble, but since the manuscript has reached me, I have the obligation to treat it fairly and justly.

Whether or not the draft is passed, it must be well-founded and convincing. "

"That is, the periodicals in the arcane world are all lifelong responsibility..."

Georg agreed deeply.

……

"What, people from Autodox contributed?"

Not long after, Lei, who is also a member of the school, also learned the news.

Roland doesn't have many acquaintances in this editorial department, but with two school members like him and Georg, there is already enough room for negotiation.

He did not rashly decide whether to approve it, but told the other party about it first.

Lei flipped through it and said, "It looks quite decent, and from the perspective of arcane art, it also has some magical significance.

This initial trial should still be able to pass. "

Some criteria are there, such as having a certain degree of innovation and magical meaning.

Then no matter how the reviewer feels about the article, it must pass.

"There is not much time left for the first trial, you only need to read it briefly, but during the re-trial and final review period, you need to state your reasons and express your position.

At that point, whether it is for or against, it will be on the record, and that is the process that deserves attention. "

Lei told Roland his experience.

When Roland heard it, he smiled: "From your tone, why does it feel like I'm trying to find an excuse to reject this paper?"

"Uh, isn't it?"

Lei was a little surprised.

"It belongs to the Autodox school after all..."

"Mr. Lei, you seem to have misunderstood me, but in fact, I, Roland, have a fair heart, and I only need to act aboveboard, and there is no need to be so partisan.

And if you want to prevent the people of the Autodox School from competing for the right to speak in the field of calligraphy and the achievements of arcane arts, you only need to be realistic.

I just read that this article is quite level, it seems that Gallo and the others have carefully concocted it, and he is waiting to dig a hole for us here, waiting for us to veto it, so that we can raise objections! "

"It's also possible that this kind of carefully crafted article was deliberately used to make a head start. After you all recognize the existence of this kind of calligraphy, the rest of the subsequent articles will have more reasons to pass."

Lei guessed.

"It doesn't matter, I still say that, seek truth from facts and treat it fairly."

In fact, what Roland said was impeccable political correctness.

He doesn't necessarily want to confide to Lei and Georg what he thinks in his heart, and this is not to guard against anyone, but as the leader of the school, he still has the city he should have.

There are too many people in this world who say one thing and do another. Under the banner of political correctness, it is up to them to decide what to do.

It is difficult to distinguish between the enemy and the enemy, and it is impossible for people to find out easily.

……

"Gallo, the manuscript has been duly submitted. If it goes well, it will be read that afternoon."

"According to the members of the school in the editorial department, there is a high probability that the article was assigned to Roland, or it was from Lei, who proposed to promote Sailis calligraphy."

After Oxea helped deal with Gallo's latest results, he returned to report the progress to him.

"The battle of schools is imminent, since he has come here and assumed the power of reviewing manuscripts, he will definitely respond to the manuscripts I submitted.

Wait patiently for a while and see how he responds. "

"It would be fine if that kid was acting on his will, and we would be really embarrassing if we caught him in this kind of matter.

It would be great if this incident could be used to trick him, and even weaken the reputation of the entire Siris school of arcane arts.

Even if there are any other achievements to cover up the past in the future, it will be an indelible stain. "

Oxea spoke.

"If he plays a fake role and passes rashly, he will also know that the work of the editorial department of "Rune" is not so easy to do.

At that time, we will publish several carefully prepared articles one after another, and he will know what riding a tiger is hard to get off. "

This trick is actually a test of the Autodox school.

In the past few days, they have learned that Roland moved here and officially took up the post.

Although Roland has begun to wield power, how to make good use of this power is also a profound knowledge.

In the eyes of Gallo and Oxea, he is still far behind.

……

That night, this matter was spread among the two schools in a secret way.

At this time, some middle and high-level mages have also accumulated in the Siris School.

Pano, Buno, Pimiller and others heard about it and privately reminded Roland to be cautious.

"Auditing papers is a very important power. After all, for Arterine, arcane papers and related achievements almost determine the lifetime achievements of an arcanist, no matter how cautious they are, they can't be overstated.

It was the people of the Autodochs school who wanted to make things difficult for us, and suppressed them within the scope of a reasonable process.

This is a great test of familiarity with the rules. "

If Roland is just a student, then he only needs to bury his head in writing a thesis, and doesn't need to know too much about things other than arcane arts.

However, besides the arcane itself, there are many other important things in the arcane world.

How to make good use of this power in your hands is one of the compulsory courses.

Everyone is watching his performance.

A few days passed in a blink of an eye, and it was December 12th.

With the arrival of the middle of the month, a small meeting was held within the editorial department, and it was decided to conduct a simple review of the manuscripts received in the past few days.

Before that, a member of the school suddenly told Roland an important news in private, that is, in the rune editorial department, both Victor and Anna may be members of the Autodox school, at least they used to be!
A school is a loose arcane research organization, and sometimes, it may not necessarily be related to politics.

Sometimes, how loyal the members are to it depends entirely on the attitude of the members themselves, or the charm of the leader.

So with the backgrounds of Victor and Anna, it is really hard to predict how much they are interested in Gallo and the others.

This kind of thing can only be analyzed from daily contact and voting at critical moments.

Roland looked at it thoughtfully for a while, and asked the members of the school who reported to him to investigate their academic achievements and possible interests, and then walked into the conference room, officially starting his first review review here. .

The result this time is actually not important, the important thing is not to make mistakes and be picked out by others!

If you can suppress your opponents openly and establish authority on this basis, it will be perfect.

(End of this chapter)