Arcane Linguist

Chapter 240 The Word of the Rune of Siris

After Diego and his son left, Roland approached Leon to ask.

The Collens family is in charge of the aristocratic genealogy of the Reiner world, and it was found out that the ancestor of Diego followed the Arkham family to fight against the Atlantians, so he destroyed his family to relieve difficulties and gradually declined.

A hundred years is neither long nor short.

That's enough to change a lot of things.

"Your Excellency Roland, why did you suddenly ask them?" Leon was puzzled.

"It's nothing, I'm just curious." Roland shook his head.

Now he knows that he is getting more and more attention from others, whether he likes or dislikes, he will not show it easily.

But after a few days, Diego was summoned again, and Roland took the time to chat with him, and the people in the manor knew that he appreciated this young man.

Roland found that Diego had a good sense of language, so he was convinced that he was indeed a rare genius.

He has not forgotten that he will have to compete with Silena Mage Tower in a few years, and to follow his legendary destiny, inherit civilization, and benefit the world, he does need some smart and talented students.

If Ruzi can be taught, he sincerely intends to cultivate and reuse it.

……

Outside the office area, in the conference room.

Diego sat alone at the corner of the long table, writing something.

Not long ago, Roland took out several manuscripts he had just written and asked him to read them and write his own opinions.

This is to test his ability in Seris, to see if the test-taking standards he set are appropriate.

"Recently, the development momentum of the school is good, and its power is growing day by day, which has indeed provided me with a lot of help.

However, even high-ranking mages like Lei and Blaise still have limited effects.

Because they have always been mature Arcanists, with achievements and status in their respective fields, it is impossible to completely devote themselves to my school.

They can only serve as a guide for the elders, and cannot replace the younger generation.

If the Siris School wants to flourish, it still depends on young people! "

The reason why Roland came here to take charge of education work was to get in touch with more young people.

He will start with the younger generation and personally cultivate his direct descendants, which is also to prepare for the future.

The appearance of Diego brought him some thoughts.

Diego knew that this was Roland's support for him, and he cherished such an opportunity, so he read it carefully.

In the end, it really gave Roland enough surprises.

"Fire, flame up, means rising, burning...

This is the general term for all related concepts...

The five elements of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth cannot be understood literally..."

Roland quietly patrolled behind him and watched him try to make notes at the back of his manuscript to read and understand his new book "Miscellaneous Theory of Five Elements".

This is not any of those works from previous lives, but an introductory article written by Roland himself in vernacular, drawing on theories of the Book of Changes, Yin and Yang of the Five Elements, etc.

Because many things of the Seris culture are related to it, even including the law of dynasty change.

If you don't try to explain these clearly first, there will still be many obstacles in carrying them later.

Diego is not like ordinary students who only know how to learn according to the literal meaning. Instead, he really grasps the essence and begins to have his own understanding like a native speaker.

This made Roland nod repeatedly, feeling extremely satisfied.

A child can be taught. If you cultivate it well, it will be enough to make notes, translations, and dissemination of studies for yourself.

……

After Diego completed what he explained, Roland did not continue to let Diego read his manuscripts or poetry collections, but threw out some areas that he had not yet explored.

This begins to involve some content in the field of magic.

For example, the rune system of text mapping, how can we use magic power more perfectly.

Translated into the vernacular, it is how to engrave more magic runes in as small a place as possible in a more convenient and easy-to-use way, just like the evolution of electronic tubes into integrated circuits... Give this different world a little bit of Moore's Law shocked.

If it is easier to understand, it is better magic cards, spell scrolls and the like.

There are also shorter spells, and spell models that are easier to construct.

As it turned out, Diego was good in those areas, as well as unique.

Don't underestimate this point, because repeating Roland's knowledge and insights will not help Roland's own growth in the slightest.

Feedback some new things like this, even if it is wrong, biased, and superficial insights, it may also bring inspiration.

As the saying goes, if three people walk together, there must be my teacher.

He also got a lot of inspiration from it.

"The symbolic properties of language, the signifier and the signified, the conventional and the arbitrary, the invariable and the changeable;
Structural properties of language, linear and discrete, hierarchy and hierarchy, composition and aggregation;

Including morphemes, phrases, sentences, discourse, pronunciation, vocabulary, grammar, semantics...

In various ways, we are all trying to explore.

Among them, composing fu and writing essays are typical applications in the field of discourse.

But now hearing what you said, I think it would be better to return to the level of words and sentences and pay attention to the use of 'idioms'. "

Idioms have a special status in Seres, they contain allusions one after another, and condense a lot of information.

This in itself is the most resonant point in the language system.

Especially the resonance across the universe.

With Roland's encouragement, Diego continued: "Your Excellency, why do things like magic cards have to be printed?
The printing effect of magic ink on paper is acceptable, but the effect on materials such as mithril, gold and magic crystal is still limited. It is better to follow some of the practices of alchemists in the past and use some corrosive things to print on it. Leave an imprint. "

Roland has heard of this technique, called "wafer etching".

The specific implementation method is of course not using any corrosive potion as Diego said, but photolithography.

This is the origin of the famous lithography machine.

In the past, Roland, Skold and others also discussed related issues and tried to take this route.

Roland really "understands" the relevant principles.

Fortunately, there are still alchemists in this world who have explored related fields, and there are ready-made ladders for climbing.

The premise is that there are sufficient funds and manpower.

However, this is not the point. The point is that after etching out in this way, the meaning instillation of words in the system of language symbols will change greatly.

Still, as I said before, only the copied things have soul and spirituality.

Printing and etching are different.

The ancients thought there was no such thing, but modern arcanists discovered that there was. The fundamental reason lies in the difference in mapping methods.

Just like the refraction of light in water, using these methods to preserve things in the object, the symbolic characteristics have undergone major changes.

Roland reconfirmed that for highly condensed things like "idioms", the offset will be smaller.

In other words, it is equivalent to using a whole written text, as well as a piece of history and allusions, to replace the role of a single word as an anchor.

Only in this way can it be easier to retain the meaning and have the effect of resonance.

Inscribed on a scroll or even a magic card requires a lot of meaning, and the will of the living beings depends on it.

He suddenly woke up.

"In the past, some ancient magicians used a lot of lengthy and repetitive mantras to recite them to achieve similar effects, right?"

Of course, like some old mages, a lot of idioms such as being illiterate, being like-minded, exchanging shallow words and deep words are used to deviate.

The original meaning will be distorted and new meaning will be created.

The truth here is broad and profound.

……

After Diego returned, Roland immediately communicated with Scudder and the others to tell him some new ideas.

"I plan to create a new set of rune languages, a rune language exclusive to the Seris School!"

"The language of runes?"

Scudder was slightly stunned, and soon understood what Roland meant.

"We seem to have briefly discussed this matter before, but we didn't go too deep."

"That's right. At that time, we didn't have enough knowledge, money, wealth, and various accumulations to afford this kind of thing, but now it seems that we can try it." Roland said.

The so-called rune language is actually equivalent to idioms in the magic world.

The two have a great deal in common.

All kinds of magic words, singly and in combination, have different meanings.

From this, the ancient magicians created a system of rune language.

For example, a certain gem is engraved with a certain rune, which is a single "word".

By combining and arranging in a specific way, the blessing effects of two runes and three runes will be superimposed.

After reaching certain specific conditions, a new series of effects and set effects will be produced.

This is the so-called rune language.

Previously, Roland, Skold, and others discussed using the transcription principle of translation to make this kind of rune language, but it was later discovered that this path simply did not work.

After all, we still have to find it in the meaning of the Cyris language itself.

Based on the principle of lithography machine, the meaning refraction and change of words and sentences, the ultra-high information concentration ratio of idioms and allusions...

The improvement and progress of the Siris magic card has been clearly visible.

"My side is mainly to explore the principles and directions, to get this done in the field of runes, and you and Tebow will find a way to get the lithography technology..."

Roland said.

"I'll give you 10000 gold coins, and you go get the lithography machine out for me!"

"Okay, no problem!" Scudder readily accepted.

……

After some arrangements for division of labor and cooperation, at the end of the month, "Words of Runes of Seris" was released.

Roland carried out a series of compilations and integrations based on the results of the magicization of the Seris language (the joint achievements of the members of the school in the past period of time have magicalized some words in the Thousand Characters).

From now on, the field of magic runes, individual words, also began to have new meanings in various permutations and combinations.

Of course, Roland is a serious mage, and he didn't come up with any new rune language like "Zhi En Tu Bao".

He is still using some more orthodox idioms.

For example, related to light: radiant, fleeting, radiant, open and aboveboard...

Another example, related to fire: a single spark, a raging fire, adding fuel to the fire, going through fire and water...

He wasn't too sure that all these idioms would come in handy.

But today, Roland is different from the past.

He already has a school under his command, with a large number of people to assist.

Now distribute the "Words of Seris Rune" compiled from "Complete Idioms" and hand it over to the members of the school under him for verification.

This is a way of working in a team. After assigning such independent tasks, each individual or group only needs to work hard for 1 to 3 days to obtain verified results.

It's relatively fast in comparison.

The premise is money.

But the school has an advantage, that is, you can use some tokens or prospects to replace the tacky things like money...

All in all, it saves money.

On this point, the awareness of most members is very high.

Except for basic living allowances, reimbursement of consumables, etc., nothing is required.

They themselves are also the co-builders of the school, and they have no regrets to help Roland carry out these verifications in order to obtain corresponding arcane results.

The time came to July 7rd, and the verification results came out, and the effect was very satisfactory.

The first batch of rune words made by Roland actually had a usability of more than 50%, and the overall resonance rate was also more than 80%.

This also means that this idea is feasible.

Although the overall resonance rate of 80% seems a bit low, you must know that this is not the resonance efficiency in a single word or in the conventional sense, but the overall resonance efficiency as an anchor point, which is engraved on the artifact, printed on the paper, and etched on the card. resonance efficiency!
A single word contains too little meaning (information), and a high resonance rate is useless, while a long sentence has too many words, so it is very difficult to use it as an anchor point.

This has led to the fact that the four-character idiom is a more appropriate structure.

"This... this could not be the land of China in ancient times, and there are a group of mythical figures who discovered this law, right?"

While sorting out these materials, Roland suddenly had such an idea inexplicably in his heart.

Feeling a little overwhelmed.

But if you think about it carefully, such things as idioms and allusions are also conventional.

In daily life practice, the general public can easily find that after excluding the continuous morphemes, onomatopoeia, duplication morphemes, and transliteration morphemes, the rest are all monosyllabic.

Idioms are composed of two two-syllable words, forming a symmetrical structure.

Two characters are too short, three characters are asymmetrical, and five or six characters are too long. Therefore, exactly four characters are almost inevitable.

Roland began to use this latest achievement to integrate the technology of seals and magic circles to make this new type of rune language into a new type of 2*2 dot matrix, which can be used as a unit similar to "pixels".

　Continue to be troubled by the old problems of the cervical spine, continue to lie dead...

　　
　
(End of this chapter)