Arcane Linguist

Chapter 166 Roland: Calligraphy in this world is defined by me!

On the second floor of the editorial department, in the meeting room.

A large dark sandalwood table stands in the center of the room, on both sides of the table, on high-backed chairs, all mages sit comfortably, and the official editors Lei, Victor, Anna, Wynn, Bob, etc. People gathered together, together with Roland, and two other special experts who were dispatched temporarily to form the lineup for this review.

Either they have reached the rank of high-level mage (associate professor), or they have the title of expert, and each of them has an arcane background related to the theme of this conference.

In addition to these people who were seated, there were a few assistant-like people in the conference room listening in from the seats next to them.

Magic quills of different colors floated on the conference table, like magic elves playing on the magic paper.

Roland came here as scheduled, sat down in the empty seat next to Lei, and then saw a middle-aged man with a pot belly walking in with a large ceramic cup.

He was wearing silk clothes for everyday household, his hair was messed up, and he looked unkempt.

"My lord editor!"

Seeing this middle-aged man, everyone stood up and showed due respect.

"Everyone sit, all sit!"

This is the head of the editorial department, Master Jennion.

He cast his gaze on Roland, coughed dryly with a little embarrassment, and said, "This is..."

Lei said helplessly: "Sir, this is the new special expert, Mr. Roland, who has officially joined our editorial team.

Mr. Rowland, the inventor of Sires, won the Morning Star Award last year. "

"I see. I've heard of you. It seems that there is such a thing."

Jennion suddenly realized.

This person hadn't come to work for several days. As the editor-in-chief of the editorial team, he didn't even know who was under him, and he didn't attend the previous occasion to welcome Roland.

Roland vaguely heard that this was a mage from the Hallmyer School.

Most of the people of the Hallmyer school are obsessed with the virtual world and cannot extricate themselves, and belong to the relatively nerdy arcane school.

But in fact, aren't the traditional mages the image of a group of magic madmen who nest in their own laboratories and indulge in various experiments and data?There are even legends of ancient wizards living in isolation, hiding in huts in the forest all day long, cooking strange soups and medicines, and keeping company with puppets, bone frames and other things.

Not everyone is interested in arcane stars like Roland.

However, such a character can be a leader, which fully proves that the system of Arteline is indeed that the best students are the best officials.

Fortunately, although Lord Jenion does not like to be sophisticated, he handles things fairly neatly. After sitting down, he immediately presided over the meeting and directly entered the topic.

"Let's take a look at this article that has passed the preliminary review, "The Invention of a New Type of Magical Writing"..."

The assistants chanted a mantra, and used the "screen projection technique" to project the screen to the editors and experts through the air. The article on it was exactly the article mentioned in the topic.

There are also individual mages, such as Anna, who choose to copy the physical documents and place them by the tea side to read them.

These are all articles that have been submitted at the beginning of the month. In addition to the editor in charge of the first review, others have also been involved because of the cross-review rules, and they have a general understanding.

Victor said: "Let me first say that this should be a text made during the Second Dynasty of the Elves, based on the elven runes called 'Moonlight Talismans'. The author has also stated that there are many references to it." The place.

Such an arcane achievement lacks originality, at best it is an improved achievement, and should be sent back for revision..."

"I think so too."

Everyone agrees.

The meeting went smoothly.

Roland mainly listened in and hardly spoke.

Everyone knew that he had just arrived, so they didn't ask too much for his opinion.

As we are discussing now, the manuscripts submitted in the last ten days are the main ones. The acceptance rate of "Runes" is not high, and a large number of manuscripts do not meet the requirements, and the manuscripts have been directly rejected in the preliminary review stage.

It wasn't until the new paper that everyone turned their attention to him.

That was Gallo's contribution.

"Let's take a look at this article again, "A New Type of Cyris Script and Its Magical Meaning"..."

The ugly book is an informal name in private.

In fact, Gallo and others treat it as a new type of Sairis calligraphy.

He broke up the inherent structure of the Seris script, and carried out a drastic transformation in a way of taking it for granted, combining the characteristics of the alphabet such as Atlas.

As for the effect of this transformation, it is a matter of opinion.

And this is where the controversy comes from.

"Mr. Roland, you are the founder of the Seris School. This article is based on your arcane achievements. Tell me about it."

Jennifer called by name.

"Before I talk about this article, I would like to ask everyone, what is calligraphy?

More specifically, it is the calligraphy style of various characters. How can it be judged as the art of calligraphy? "

Roland was not in a hurry to express his point of view, but raised a question.

"I know a little about this. The source of calligraphy should be as old as writing."

Calligraphy enthusiast Lei took part in this topic with interest.

With the support of this schoolmate and the introduction of the "old" topic, Roland said happily: "Language in a broad sense actually includes sounds and words."

The others quietly listened to their discussion, thoughtful.

"Because the sound cannot be transmitted in a different place and stay in a different time, it will inevitably be distorted only by word of mouth, so there will be writing.

Words are the traces of meaning and sound. To be precise, they are the traces of sound and meaning in this world.

Because of the physiological structure of ordinary creatures, the amount of information processed by vision occupies the vast majority of the various senses, and among them, what is closely related to thinking activities is the picture seen by the eyes.

The existence of words is to solve the problems of information transmission and thinking ability, and it is a manifestation of visual communication. "

Lei agrees: "It is true that the ancient ancestors carved and painted on stones or walls, and some symbols appeared on pottery or tree bark.

Most of these things have not survived, so the ancient civilization has gone through a long period of development and has not accumulated any heritage. However, in the tribal period, pictographs or pictographs were gradually born, and there were expressions based on new carriers. In this way, the text is gradually derived.

Mr. Roland once pointed out in the article "On the Calligraphy Changes of Seris Characters and the Art of Calligraphy" that formally proposed the concept of calligraphy that these things are closely related to the carrier of characters and are essentially objective things.

I think that since it is an objective thing, the judgment of calligraphy art should also have objective standards. "

Roland said with a smile: "That's right, in fact, Art Rhine has some generally accepted opinions in this regard. For example, the most basic one is that printing is not a calligraphy art, and it only exists as a font format at best."

Everyone nodded in agreement.

Roland continued: "In addition, the essence of art should be based on beauty, and some alternative arts may be chasing ugliness, but most normal art is based on beauty.

For example, a certain necromancer puts out a pile of rotting corpses, insisting that this is avant-garde art, and finds a group of death banshees with zombie faces, floating around like they are owed millions of gold coins, Are you willing to accept it? "

"That must not be possible!"

"Who dares to touch my head and pollute my eyes, I will use my staff to fight back!"

"I understand what you mean. The standard of art should be beneficial to living things, beneficial to ethnic groups, and beneficial to the objective laws of reproduction, survival and development! At least healthy mainstream art should be like this."

The crowd complied.

"The beauty of the calligraphy of Seres lies in the structure, which is transformed from form to form. It is essentially a process of mapping meaning from symbols, which is actually an important part of linguistics.

However, the construction and development process of linguistics is mainly based on alphabetic characters, and lacks the interpretation of the Seris language. This can only be deconstructed after the rise of my Seris school.

Closer to home, let’s go back to the topic just now, which is how to express the beauty of Sailis calligraphy, or in other words, what kind of calligraphy can be called Sailis calligraphy?

In my opinion, it should be analyzed from the following points.

The first point, of course, is the beauty of the structure.

Sailis characters pay attention to the overall structure. Some people call them square characters, which I think is appropriate.

All the characters of Sailis can be written in a kind of 'matts'. I suggest that beginners of calligraphy consider using this kind of box as an auxiliary tool, and maybe add slashes to form a 'mzi grid' '. "

Hearing Roland mention this matter, Lei's heart moved slightly, and he quickly took out a small notebook that he carried with him, and wrote it down.

"The second point is the beauty of lines, or the beauty of strokes.

The Seris script is composed of lines. The biggest difference between it and cuneiform or other pictographs is that it has undergone major changes in the Jiajin seal script, especially the change from the Bronze script to the seal script. "

A major contribution of Qin Zhuan is to standardize the lines.

The style of the standard seal script is neatly arranged, the strokes are round and round, and the lines are even and long, showing a solemn and beautiful style.

In comparison, oracle bone inscriptions and bronze inscriptions are actually very irregular, with many ugly and cute characters, and they are written like beginners.

In the modern days of Blue Star in the previous life, some people standardized it and produced oracle bone fonts that can be displayed on the computer, etc., and the lines are much more beautiful.

But the specification of this point conflicts with the printing type mentioned above.

Calligraphy is actually an art that embodies its unique charm in this contradiction.

Roland continued: "The third point, the beauty of the rules!
This can be interpreted as the layout of calligraphy works, the method of echoing and caring for the relationship between characters and characters, lines and lines.

Calligraphy works are a whole. A character is similar to a painting. It pays attention to the order of primary and secondary, uniform rhythm, size and density, straight and round, open and close, and so on. "

Everyone was dumbfounded, but instinctively realized that this was the essence of the Siris school of knowledge.

Lei was fascinated by it.

Although it was far from the point where he could die in the morning and night, but as a calligraphy lover himself, it was the first time he really saw the palace of art opening in front of him.

"I thought that making some italic cursive and hollow fonts could be regarded as art, but now I know that the real calligraphy is in the Seris school!"

Jennion also showed sincere interest: "Then what do you mean, this kind of 'grass' can't be called calligraphy in the true sense?"

Roland told him clearly: "It's really not.

But the more important reason is that I think his handwriting is too ugly, and the manuscript should be rejected or overhauled. "

Lei praised: "It makes sense. An article talking about calligraphy ends up with ugly writing. This is too unconvincing."

Victor couldn't help but asked, "In this case, why did you pass the initial review?"

Roland glanced at him and said: "Of course it is to encourage related papers of the Siris School. As the founder of the Siris School, I feel very kind when I see this kind of articles. Let's encourage it.

I, Roland, have a public heart, and this is all for the development of the school.

But unfortunately, articles with insufficient arcane skills can only reluctantly be rejected. If the author of this article still wants to pass it, I am willing to spend some personal time to guide the revision. "

In a corner of the meeting room, the magical quill pen controlled by the clerk was rustling writing.

This miraculous alchemy tool has already used the latest coding results, and it can write Siris characters at a speed of about 400 characters per minute, which is also the corresponding amount of strokes when converted into other languages.

It faithfully records the conversations of everyone, replacing expensive photographic equipment records, as the basis of the lifelong responsibility system.

If there are any problems related to the review of papers in the future, they can be checked backwards to accurately restore the statement of any member of the editorial team.

In the end, what Roland gave was a justified reason.

All the people present had a reaction of "what he said makes sense, but I'm speechless".

When Lei slapped his head, he suddenly realized.

It turned out that Roland's real purpose was to reject this article and solve it before it was successfully published!

Let me just say, how could it be possible to come to the editorial department of "Rune", or let others mess around?
Think about it, how much trouble the birth of the phonetic alphabet scheme of the Ossi alphabet has caused to the Pinyin scheme of Siris, and you will understand.

The Alter Rhine dialect is prevalent, and various phonetic schemes can be supported by a group of people. If things go on like this, it will damage the foundation of the promotion of the Pinyin scheme.

Lei also didn't want to see such a mess of strange shapes appear in the calligraphy world.

"Okay, Mr. Roland's opinion is... ugly rejection?
Do you support or oppose? "

Jenyon, who came from the Hallmyer school, concluded.

"support!"

"support!"

"support!"

Several people supported him one after another, and the most steadfast among them was, of course, Lei, who had begun to become a spiritual Serisian.

His chosen main area of ​​attack was Siris calligraphy, and he felt that Roland had spoken to his heart.

He couldn't tell whether the arcane level of that article was high or low for a while, but the words were too ugly.

Go back and practice you!
"I object! I object!"

Suddenly, Victor yelled in dissatisfaction.

Anna hesitated for a while and expressed her objection.

"Why do you object?" Jenion asked.

Roland and Lei cast their eyes on them, and then looked at each other.

Earlier, Roland received information that there might be members of the Autodox School in the editorial department of "Rune".

This is both an arcane identity and a spiritual belief.

Whether to support the Autodox School depends entirely on the maintenance of his own interests and his arcane orientation.

Although Roland didn't think how many diehard members of this school could have, but such a big official school, as long as there are [-]% of them sticking to it, it will form a very powerful force.

Sure enough, after Jennion asked, Victor couldn't wait to say: "Didn't Mr. Roland say before that there must be objective criteria for judgment, why did he refuse on the grounds of ugly words?
In my opinion, this is a style, a character!
We should uphold a diversified aesthetic concept and tolerate these exploratory calligraphy arts! "

"Oh, you think this is calligraphy art with exploration significance?" Roland couldn't help laughing.

"Then... of course!" Victor said.

"Then may I ask your Excellency, what works have you published, and what achievements have you created? Is your achievement in the field of rune literature related to the field of calligraphy?" Roland asked several soul tortures in succession.

Victor was suddenly dumbfounded.

Matters in the arcane world cannot be won by shouting some politically correct words!

Just relying on Roland's mad grass casting method, such a magical result derived from Siris calligraphy is enough to give him an authoritative voice in this field.

Unless Victor also has similar or even better results in the same field, there is no way to argue against him.

Anna said softly: "Mr. Roland, I think what Mr. Victor means is that there are some subjective factors in the judgment of beauty and ugliness. Maybe in the eyes of some people, this kind of word is not bad?"

Roland said kindly, "Your opinion is worthy of approval. Apart from being objective, the criteria for judging beauty and ugliness cannot be separated from subjective factors.

Many people even believe that art should be subjectively dominant.

Regarding this point, I am noncommittal, and I don't intend to explain it with any major principles. I will just show off a little here, and please take a look with your own subjective impressions. "

Having said that, he paused and ordered, "Here comes the pen."

Assistant Georg quickly sent the pen and paper that had been prepared.

Roland dipped the ink on the simple inkstone, and began to write on the spot.

Sailis calligraphy has a long history, developed from ancient times to the present, and has many influential famous artists.

According to the point of view of later generations, it can be roughly divided into north stele and south post, and the style is majestic, elegant and so on.

From the different levels of potential, rhyme, method, meaning, and wind, there are different factions.

These are unique phenomena created by the development of the North and South regions and the times.

Compared with the history and culture of this world, it is simply something from an alien planet, unheard of and unseen.

Erwang, historical celebrities such as Yan, Liu, Ou, Zhao, etc., it is not easy for him to copy them for a while, and he needs to follow up with "The Romance of Siris" to launch.

But for the characteristics of the genre of cursive script itself, Roland can still say something, and on the spot, he showed the cursive script that appeared in different historical periods such as Cao Li, Zhang Cao, and Jin Cao.

These are the styles he has already expressed in his previous articles, but suddenly, Zhang Xu and Huai Su's drunkenness pushes the cursive expression to the extreme.

Youdao is "Zhang Dian Su Kuang", these are the two people in the traditional school who pushed cursive script to the extreme.

Roland didn't dare to say that he could imitate it with some charm, but as an amateur in his previous life, he had more or less researched it.

Just revealing it a little bit will make people in this world understand what thinness and flying are, and what is wildness and unruly.

Some things are harmless without comparison. Just looking at Gallo's "Growing Grass" alone seems to be somewhat reasonable.

The direction he chose to attack is the cursive script lineage, which is actually a very smart approach, because for different types of calligraphy, cursive script is originally a calligraphy that takes the urgent route, which is not only practical in terms of spell casting assistance, but also Even copying books can be a bit faster!
The resulting sloppy handwriting and other consequences can also be covered up by the original cursive script.

But Roland used the facts to let them understand that the judgment between beauty and ugliness is not that simple.

Not all ugliness can use art as a cover, and some scribbles are completely different from others.

The so-called calligraphy that Gallo created in a hurry, in contrast, is a system that has no rules and no rules at all.

If there is no Sairis calligraphy in this world, and there is no correct source for comparison, some of the concepts may still be quite confusing.

What is capricious, what is free to play, what is free, what is unique...

The set of diversification can pack up the shoddy products.

As long as you don't know how to appreciate, it means that you don't have enough vision.

As a result, under strong contrast, the roots were exposed.

Roland's handwriting is like a Xiaojiabiyu who looks plain but has a bit of a mark.

The level of ordinary lovers, of course, can not be called brilliant.

But in the eyes of ordinary people, it can already be said to be beautiful and stylish.

Suddenly one day, in this strange world, everyone just saw a bunch of weird and ugly characters concocted by Gallo, and then looked at this plain-looking Xiao Jiabiyu, and they were so moved that they wanted to cry.

What is a fairy descending to earth, what is a peerless beauty!
This is it!

Looking back at Gallo's...

Ugly refusal, ugly refusal!
This time, even Victor and Anna had nothing to say.

"This……"

"The gap seems to be a bit big!"

"Calligraphy has principles and regularities. If you violate these basic regularities, you will indeed go astray!"

After reading it, the editorial team unanimously decided to kill it directly.

Even the overhaul proposed by Roland is not necessary. This violates the principle and is simply not valid!
(End of this chapter)