Arcane Linguist

Chapter 410 Elemental Runes and Formal Language

"On the road to arcane magic, the biggest obstacle is this stubborn old man who doesn't know how to advance or retreat!"

In the city of Nevis, Roland received an email and was filled with emotion.

News from Elamon soon came, saying that Opani had obviously realized his previous mistake.

But he still refused to repent and formed a team in private to prepare for competition.

Because if he repented, it would mean giving up his own authority and status, and giving up his influence in the arcane world.

Fortunately, Roland never expected that such a person could give up on his own.

After Roland sorted this out, he sent an email to both Moningya and Varian to discuss the next action.

They, the Young Masters, have reached a consensus, that is, they should take advantage of this opportunity to get rid of Lao Deng, and stop letting him rely on his old age to act recklessly.

"You may be able to use the runic culture achievements of the Seris language to redefine the rune system and secret mark of the elemental school..."

Roland gave them a suggestion to proactively expand their influence and seize authority.

In Ellamon City, Moninia and Varian met to discuss.

"Have you seen Lord Roland's suggestion?"

"I saw it."

"I roughly understand what he means, but is this really possible?"

Roland sent them the periodic table of elements: hydrogen, helium, lithium, beryllium, boron, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, fluorine, and neon...

These Siris words and the corresponding magical structures (runes) can re-deconstruct the elemental runes, deconstruct the magic marks of different elemental powers such as earth, wind, water, and fire!

“There is no doubt that this will be an important change.

Get rid of the influence of elven culture and invest in the changes of Seris language. "

Both of them hesitated.

Different words and languages ​​explain new things in different ways.

Some languages ​​are based on word roots, and new words are constantly created on the original basis to meet the growing needs of development.

Some languages ​​can make clever use of radicals to form new characters through pictograms and meanings, making ideal adaptations.

The Seris version of the elemental runes proposed by Roland is an example of ingenious utilization.

Anyone who knows something about history knows that many of the words here are similar to the names of the princes and grandsons of the Ming Dynasty.

The text was originally created based on the traditional cultural concepts of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth, but was cleverly used by Xu Shou when later generations translated the periodic table of elements.

When he named chemical elements, he first selected the corresponding words through transliteration, and then adapted them with radicals indicating their attributes.

For example, "zinc", "manganese", "magnesium" and so on, the naming rules of the princes and grandsons are also used invisibly.

Many disciplines actually use a similar approach, using symbolic formal language to explain.

They focus on grammatical rules and symbols are more arbitrary.

For example, mathematics is a mixture of Arabic numerals and symbols such as addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, as well as Greek letters such as alpha and beta.

Just because of historical reasons, the influence of Seris language in these fields is weak.

Computer programming language is also a formal language. These are the "magic" of Blue Star in the previous life and the corresponding "magic runes"!

Roland is now trying to connect the symbolization process with the Siris runes, and try to imprint the Siris brand on the design level.

Programming language is not essentially English. Its precise definition should be a formal language (Formal Language) that is "symbolized" with the natural language of English as its "mother parent".

Its grammatical rules are composed of symbols (Token) and structure (Structure) rules. The concept of symbol (Token) is equivalent to words and punctuation in natural language, numbers and operators in mathematical formulas, and elements in chemical formulas. names and numbers. (Note: Quoted from "One-stop learning of Linux C programming" by Song Jinshan)

For historical reasons, many keywords and professional terms in programming languages ​​are expressed in English.

In the magical world, there are ancient texts such as elven and dragon language.

The Seris language had missed the technological revolution in its previous life and failed to leave a sufficient mark on the scientific community, causing latecomers to pay high costs of learning and understanding.

This also involves the underlying foundation and continues to have an impact, which is really regrettable.

He wanted to add a twist and use Siris' symbols to define the magic of those elemental schools.

As for feasibility…

Computer systems can gradually accept Chinese symbols, gradually generate Chinese keywords, and gradually adapt from the entire system level.

Magic is a system that emphasizes the rules of resonance, and it certainly does that.

It can even be said that it can be adapted better and more reasonably.

From a design perspective, Seris Language has considered how to be highly abstract and how to suppress "attribute inflation" or "method inflation" from the beginning!

Roland knew that if the underlying design was not subtle enough, it would cause an embarrassing situation.

For example, when there are new paradigms or actual situations that need to be handled, some new attributes or new methods have to be added.

Then add it again next time you encounter it.

If you encounter it next time, please continue to add.

If you have a headache, treat your head. If your feet hurt, treat your feet.

It keeps expanding, making it cumbersome and messy.

Therefore, some natural languages ​​can expand from more than 100,000 words to more than one million, and more may be needed to enter the interstellar era in the future.

At the grammatical level, the same is true for various expressions.

However, Seris language has been highly abstract from the beginning, which can greatly improve reusability.

For example, if the radicals are composed of radicals, if they belong to the gas category, they must have a gas radical. If they have three points of water, they are related to water and flow. If they are metal, they have a gold character next to them.

The ancestors may not understand what programming language is, but they unintentionally conform to these principles.

If they are designed from the ground up, even after thousands of years, these things will continue to run like well-written code and will not easily become a mountain of shit.

The Rune School is a very ancient field and has a long history compared to other schools.

It can affect all aspects of a person's life and study, not just professional knowledge.

Various information and explanations, definitions of nouns and rules still require the participation of native speakers to be more resonant.

What Roland is doing in the arcane world now is like killing three birds with one stone, killing two birds with one stone.

He not only wanted to defeat Opani, the old dean, but also wanted to join forces with Morinin Varian and others to launch a cooperative project. He also wanted to leave a rich arcane legacy for future generations of students of the Seris School.

The symbolization and lingualization of these elemental magics will open up the barrier between Siris magic and the elemental school, and build a bridge for rapid understanding and learning. This is indeed a contribution to the contemporary era and will benefit the future.

Most of the current elemental magic and symbol systems are controlled by Elvish.

Roland was keenly aware that Atrein also had a need to "de-elfize" (no way, it's an old tradition), but in the process of adapting to the Atrein language, it was not successful.

His idea was not so whimsical.

As long as there are more corresponding projects and more people are using it, there will always be ways to expand its influence.

This process is much easier and more scientific than so-called Chinese programming.

And if the Seris language and the corresponding runic cultural achievements happen to be compatible with it at the rule level, it will definitely be highly valued and vigorously promoted.

In this way, the new generation of elemental colleges will offer Selis language tutorials... In this transformation process, the newly established authority will be enough to lead the new era.

Moria, Varian and others are undoubtedly excited about the benefits that these will bring.

However, they also have some concerns.

Of course they can also see that Atrein has the need to "de-elfize".

But can this localization of Siris really be achieved?

Will it be as confusing as "Chinese programming"...

They don't know about "Chinese programming", but in the field of the Elemental School, everyone uses the magic symbols converted from Elvish script to good use, but they are forced to change them into Siris language.

At first glance, it seems to be the same unnecessary step, and you may encounter the same trouble.

Don't end up making it pointless.

But Roland is actually quite confident about this matter.

After all, the real function of this elemental rune is definitely not as simple as the "Chinese programming" advocated by some people.

What "Chinese programming" lacks is the support of the entire system's bottom layer, and the bottom layer of the magic system built by Mana relies on resonance as the key...

It naturally supports the Seris language!

The various languages ​​used in the magical world are originally something between natural language and formal language!

To be precise, it is similar to an artificial intelligence prompt!

When humans read a natural language sentence or a formal language sentence, they must not only figure out what each word (Token) means, but also what the structure of the entire sentence is like. This process of analyzing sentence structure is called Parse (Note: Quoted from Song Jinshan’s "One-stop Learning for Linux C Programming")

The resonance of Mana is actually a process of analyzing the great ways of heaven and earth. The operation of the entire world is similar to the operation of the program.

If these are just theoretical possibilities, then some of the ready-made elemental rune results that Roland presented next are even more convincing.

“These things are not my personal invention, but Master Ogut from Sinvila.

Sinvela's reform in the arcane field has not been so thorough, so there are mostly secret methods. This is Master Augut's secret method. "

"How do you have such a thing?"

The two of them were doubly shocked.

The relationship between Master Augute and him is also very good!

Of course it was brought by the good student Fawn.

Roland said silently in his heart.

He responded vaguely: "I exchanged it with him.

But in any case, this should be enough to prove that the basic rune system of the Elemental School can adopt the Seris rune, right? "

"Wait, let me figure it out..."

"Those you mentioned before are the building blocks of basic matter, not magical elements. You seem to have confused the definitions, or perhaps there is an error caused by translation in different languages.

However, the principles are indeed the same. "

"If you think these runes can be used in the basic rune construction of the Elemental School, I can't refute it."

"Then let's try using keyword replacement first."

Not surprisingly, the two decided to adopt a method similar to "Chinese programming" and try replacing keywords.

Of course, what is used here is the result of runic culture, not natural language.

Moreover, it is still related to the thunder attribute that has been tested by Master Ogut.

Roland struck while the iron was hot and said: "I actually don't mind cooperation, I just don't want to be constrained...

Perhaps we can hand over part of the electromagnetic gun research and development to you for win-win cooperation! "

"Are you still willing to develop this technology with us?"

Both of them were a little surprised, and they were also shocked by Roland's broad mind.

They could see that Roland was not being hypocritical, but was really seeking cooperation.

Just like he relaxed many restrictions in the past and actively opened up the source, he actually had an open and cooperative attitude from beginning to end.

It was really inappropriate for the old dean Opani to confront him!

"I have only one request."

Roland continued.

"please say."

"This cooperation must exclude Mr. Opani."

Roland said bluntly without any hesitation.

Two people: "..."

Uh, sure enough!

……

Compared with Master August, the arcane skills of Moninya, Varian and others are not inferior at all, and even surpass them.

They quickly sorted out the key parts and broke the window paper with just one poke.

Because Roland provided them with relevant processing of magical elements such as "thunder".

Then, it is logical that the general framework of the fields of traditional magic elements such as earth, wind, water, fire, etc., as well as ice, light, darkness, etc. derived from them, is determined.

They even formulated a relatively complete set of grammatical rules in the field of thunder attributes, redefining the formal language of using this elemental rune to analyze magic spells.

To explain it in layman's terms, it means that the related spell-casting spell, Siris, has been linguized.

Especially in fields related to electromagnetic guns, both parties were more interested and conducted more in-depth cooperation, which can be regarded as a breakthrough in practical applications.

In this way, Fine can be regarded as having obtained some of the true secrets from the Elamon School of Atrein and integrated them into his own understanding.

By the time both parties did this, several months had passed.

Based on his previous work, Fine once again published an article "Elemental Principles of Electromagnetic Guns" and submitted it to the journal "Elements", which once again shocked the world.

Everyone in the Ellamon School competed to read it and saw the hope of participating in research and mastering magic.

……

"What? How did he master those things? Who opened the information to him?"

Opani was the last to know about it. After reading it in a hurry, he couldn't help but exclaimed.

Faun can obtain these technical materials without using them, enhance his magic, and at the same time enjoy arcane achievements, reputation and various rewards.

He understood what was going on almost instantly, and couldn't help but slumped down, despairing of all thoughts.

　I wish you all a Happy New Year! In the new year, the arcane level increases!

　　

　

(End of this chapter)