Arcane Linguist

Chapter 168 The first meeting with Gallo
A few days later, Nieves, in front of a private house in the east of the city.

Celebrities and ladies arrived one after another, stepping on the red carpet into the inner courtyard amidst the magic flashing lights that flickered from time to time.

In the open-air space in the yard, common things for parties have been placed.

However, apart from all kinds of tables and chairs, exquisite and gorgeous cups and cups, the most eye-catching thing is undoubtedly the huge banner hanging in front of the main building of the residence.

It was a piece of cloth hanging on a rope, with large characters pasted on it, a two-line slogan spliced ​​with single characters.

Uplink: "Seres Calligraphy Association."

Downstream: "Welcome all mages to come and guide us!"

Roland came with Al in full costume in the enthusiastic crowd of the crowd, and when he saw the scene from a distance, he suddenly murmured in his heart.

banner!

National quintessence leaked!
I didn't tell you about this, so I learned it without a teacher?

The succubus companion, who was acting as a female companion, followed Roland's gaze and turned her attention to the banner, and also let out a sigh of relief.

These people have something.

"Roland, this is a big character in regular script written by me. How is it? It looks good, doesn't it?"

Lei greeted him, saw Roland's inexplicable expression, and said with a little complacency.

Of course, he wouldn't tell Roland that this painting was a piece of writing that he spent a lot of time carefully selecting from hundreds of failed works.

"It's pretty good." Roland couldn't bear to hurt the other party's self-confidence, and said with a wry smile, "But in the future, can I use complete paper to write in one go?"

Old Lei blushed, mumbled and said nothing.

Posting one by one like this, it looks really messy.

While speaking, several middle-aged and elderly mages in ordinary clothes entered the venue.

As a result, the entire venue was quiet for a while, and everyone avoided the road and saluted, paying high respect to those who came.

That was Orvisto, Tempelis, Isbe, Dias, Arkady, Paedas...

A total of six archmages!
Seeing this scene, the green dragon Cuina, who was following Roland not far away, couldn't help but her scalp tingling, and she had the urge to leave the scene immediately and run away.

However, she quickly realized that these great mages were only here to participate in the founding ceremony of the Calligraphy Association.

These great mages all joined the Calligraphy Association because of their respective interests and hobbies. The pursuit of art and entertainment is more important than its own arcane value.

"You humans are really boring, even the archmage is unavoidable!"

Trina couldn't help complaining.

Roland said with a smile: "Sister Cuihua, everyone has the instinct to pursue perfection and perfection. The achievements in art are an important part of replenishing inner energy, and they are also an indispensable part of being a 'King of Philosophers'. Knowing research, or fighting and killing, cannot become a great figure advocated by the Arcane Empire."

"Tch!" Trina showed dissatisfaction, "Why do I feel like you are preaching again?"

Green Dragon, who was born in the mountains, strongly protested this. This is racial discrimination and professional discrimination!
Roland ignored her, instead, he stepped up to his teacher, greeted him, and then greeted the other archmages.

"Roland, we haven't seen each other for several days since last year's Morning Star Awards Ceremony."

Several archmages actually met him once, and they all said with a smile when they saw this.

In order to show support for the Seris School, they still communicate in the Seris language that Roland is familiar with.

Although the accent sounds weird, a bit like a foreigner from a western country, but it can already be called fluent.

It's only been more than a year, and the learning ability of these archmages is simply amazing.

"We are really flattered that several of you can come to participate in the activities here." Roland said sincerely.

"It's too serious for you to say that. In fact, we also want to add one or two artistic hobbies to cultivate our temperament out of our interest in the Siris School."

Several archmages revealed the truth.

It is indeed arty, as Roland said before.

Not long after, the crowd dispersed, talking to guests they knew or needed to know.

Orvisto, as Roland's teacher, stayed and asked about his recent situation.

Turning his head and looking around, he said with emotion: "I have long thought that there should be such an art form as calligraphy in Seris characters, but I didn't expect it to have such a rich connotation.

Your imagination and creativity are truly amazing. "

Roland smiled embarrassedly.

This is obviously the result of joint deduction by countless literati, famous masters and masters since 2000.

I really can't deserve this compliment.

"However, what I am more gratified for you now is not these visible results, but the fact that the Siris School is becoming an accepted emerging trend."

Hearing the teacher mention this matter, Roland looked serious, and said, "That's true. Recently, there have been more people in Spirit Seres in Arterine."

"Oh, a spiritual Serisian?" Orvisto paused with interest, with a look of willingness to hear more about it.

Roland explained: "Please allow me to refer to you as a spiritual Serisian, not a Serisian culture lover or an ordinary school member. The essence of Serisism is a spirit, a civilization, and it is more inclined to Metaphysical cultural memes.

I have heard that the essence of things such as human civilization and social power is actually based on an imagined spiritual community.

Regardless of blood, family, nationality, or occupation, country...

Everything, seemingly objective and materialistic, is essentially a reflection of the spiritual world.

This narrative based on the spiritual world constructs a fictional community, including social ethics, moral norms, political contracts, and all human-related arrangements.

Thus civilization was born. "

"This is the content advocated by the overhead doctrine of the Iser School and the Hallmyer School.

The question of the importance of objectivity and subjectivity is open to debate, but in a sense, human civilization and common spiritual beliefs, organizational cohesion, etc., are indeed derived from this. "

When Ovisto said this, he took a deep look at him.

"Power is also based on the influence of this kind of thinking.

If the ever-increasing spiritual Serisians are the citizens of this emerging community, they need a king to lead their exploration and progress, and that person must be you.

But before you get there, I want you to be strict with yourself in order to be worthy of this position. "

Roland saluted humbly, and said deeply, "I've always demanded this from myself."

After a brief conversation, Orvisto went inside and admired all the calligraphy works of Seris collected by Lei in a separate activity room.

These things were co-created by himself and the members of the association. During this period of time, Sailis calligraphy has become popular. Roland and Lei are the pioneers. Calligraphy works have become a model for others and are becoming a model for everyone to imitate. Object.

Even these archmages are quite interested in it.

At this moment, Roland suddenly saw several people walking in at the gate of the front yard of the house.

The leader was a young sorcerer in his 30s, with a handsome face and a haughty temperament. His demeanor was full of the unique demeanor of classical aristocrats. He was wearing a dress similar to a suit and tuxedo, and his hair was combed meticulously.

"That's Gallo, he's here!"

Lei appeared beside Roland, revealing his identity.

"I was just sending an invitation letter out of politeness, but I didn't expect him to come."

"Is he Gallo?"

Roland said with a little curiosity.

The genius of the Autodox school, he has already learned something, and he has been troubled by them a lot during this period of time.

But when it comes to meeting under the magic net, it has never happened before.

To be exact, there has never even been an online communication on the magic net.

When Roland saw Gallo, Gallo seemed to feel something in his heart, and cast his gaze over.

Afterwards, he led his female companion, as well as several members of the school, including Oxea, over.

"Mr. Gallo, it's a pleasure to meet you. I didn't expect that you would take time out of your busy schedule to attend our association's activities."

Lei said to him politely with a slight smile.

"The name of Sailis calligraphy has already been established, and it has become the latest unique art. As a member of the Rune School, how can we lag behind others."

Gallo simply responded to him, but looked at Roland.

"This must be the famous Mr. Roland. Last year, we met each other. It's a pity that we didn't meet each other..."

When he said this, his face twitched slightly.

In fact, he had been to the awards ceremony and saw Roland.

However, he left before the ceremony started.

He had met Roland, but Roland had never met him.

"Mr. Gallo, I have known you for a long time."

Roland smiled and shook hands with him.

"I've heard that you are an apprentice of Archmage Watson. You have participated in the latest compilation of Autodox runes, and you have made many achievements in the field of elf history and culture. You are an authoritative expert in the field of elf language. Nice to meet you."

"Your Excellency is awsome, but I just participated in some finishing work."

Gallo said lightly.

The people of the Autodox school had mixed feelings about the project, which also involved the school's struggle at that time and the struggle for dominance among the archmages.

This actually overlaps with the compilation of ancient magic runes hosted by Orvisto.

But those are already the matters of the seniors. What he thinks of now is between himself and Roland.

Originally, there shouldn't be much intersection between the two. From the perspective of arcane status and age, there is a difference of several ranks, and they are more than 10 years old. They are basically different generations.

But he didn't expect that Roland, who was born out of nowhere, would suddenly become a contemporary competitor.

It was precisely because of this that Gallo decided to face himself squarely and come over to take a look at Roland.

However, everyone is a civilized person, no matter how much swords are drawn in secret, they still do their best on the surface, and tacitly avoid talking about those past events, just like real old friends meeting and introducing each other.

From this, Roland saw Oxea who had hacked himself in the newspaper.

He also specially greeted the other party: "Mr. Oxea, your article is sharp and unique, but it is really impressive."

Xiao Heizi was caught offline on the spot, and his expression was a little unnatural.

But since he dared to come, he had already had psychological construction.

Right now, he said strictly: "I didn't know the essence of the Seris school and the Seris language at the time. Looking back now, some opinions were indeed too frivolous. I should be more rigorous.

But the debate on arcane arts is all for common progress, Mr. Roland, you don't mind, do you? "

I'm so fucking upset!

Roland automatically translated Oxea's words into "I will be more cautious and rigorous when I hack you in the future" and "No, no, no, no one really minds?".

But when he complained, he had a smile on his face, and said elegantly and easy-goingly: "Of course, I don't mind.

However, several of your viewpoints still impress me so far. Fortunately, over the past year or so, the theoretical construction of the Seris School has also made great progress. The viewpoints you have put forward in the past, I There are already enough rebuttal answers. "

"Oh?" Gallo, Oxea and the others all showed expressions of interest.

Not only them, but even the few reporters who were wandering around and interviewing also pricked up their ears, rushed over, and recorded by the side.

This ceremony also invited some reporters to watch the ceremony, collect and visit on the spot.

Because of the communication occasions of mages, some arcane exchanges and even debates may occur anytime and anywhere.

Such news is what mages are interested in, and it is also the main source of news for media such as "Arcane Newsletter" and "Arcane Review".

Roland also knew that in such a public place, where reporters appeared, his words and deeds would definitely become a hot topic of discussion.

In fact, these words were not for arguing with Oxea, but for himself and to justify the name of Seris.

"Seresian is an analytic language with rich meanings. One word has multiple meanings, many words have one meaning, and even homonyms, borrowing and translating all kinds are essentially for flexible use.

You once said that the grammatical confusion of Seres, mixed sound, shape, and meaning will become obstacles to casting spells, but now, the "Prayer Technique" introduced by your teacher, His Excellency Master Watson, has proved that It is sometimes an advantage.

Seres can express very subtle connotations in some contexts, producing multiple meanings and intriguing effects.

This is required to cast the "wish spell".

And the characteristics of monosyllables are suitable for power words, the rules of word formation, and adapt to the ever-changing real world..."

In fact, Oxea's point of view is also the point of view of some Blue Stars who criticized the Seres language in the previous life.

In the dark age a hundred years ago, Chinese civilization fell into an unprecedented trough, and the glory it once had in the past is no longer there. It seems that the Cyris language has become the original sin of backwardness.

The expression and use of person, tense, case change, etc. in Seres is not like many Western languages.

But after careful analysis, where does the so-called precision come from without naming certain languages?

Cow is a word, heifer is a word, beef is a word, and they are not derived from the same root...

They are not used in a combination of a ox and other words like Seres.

As for Japanese, it is true that they have given back to Chinese.

Many words in modern Chinese, such as culture, economy, etc., are new uses of ancient words and have been endowed with modern meanings.

But in fact, the roots can still be found in ancient classics.

Since modern times, the development process of modernization has been overtaken, and Chinese characters have been recombined to express new concepts, and then passed back.

But until now, because of some de-Sinicization thoughts and the origin of English influenced by Western culture, the development of Japanese has been deeply affected.

The biggest problem lies in the use of katakana to spell words, which abruptly developed into phonetic characters.

This is essentially the development route of Anglicization.

So, the more katakana, the less culture.

The reason why Roland mentioned these things was of course not aimlessly.

He was euphemistically criticizing the pronunciation of the Oss phonetic alphabet scheme.

At the same time, it is also mapping the relationship between Atlas and Elvish.

To sprite...

The biggest problem with Alterian is de-elvenization.

From the past "elegant children of the forest" and "messenger of gods" to "long-eared monsters" and "country people living in the jungle", the elves are too difficult.

Not everyone present could understand what Roland wanted to express, but as the inventor of the phonetic alphabet scheme for the Oss alphabet, as well as an authoritative expert on Elvish language and the history and culture of the Elvish people, Gallo understood something.

"Seresian is a ideographic language, and it focuses on the relationship between images and meanings. It has merits, but it is a bit exaggerated to say that it can adapt to the continuous development and changes in the future."

Gallo said lightly.

"Before Oxea also said that the biggest defect of Siris compared to alphabetic writing is that there are too many words.

So far, Roland, you have created more than 2 characters, which is really hard to imagine. How do you match their runic relationships with character codes one by one? "

Another member of the school who followed Gallo couldn't help but retort.

Roland looked at the unknown soldier and smiled faintly.

This is also not a new point of view in Blue Star's previous life. When the computer first came out, some people thought that it was necessary to fiddle with keyboards with tens of thousands of words to input them like movable type printing!
But it turns out that route was wrong.

The informatization coding of Chinese characters also has an input method, which has its own solution.

"Now we are already carrying out these coding projects. "Scribe" has included almost all Chinese characters that have been invented (transported). , radicals should also be regarded as letters or roots, and a word is a word.

This can also prove that the amount of information carried by the Siris text is very rich. "

Hearing that, the man froze immediately.

If it was a year ago, he could still insist that he didn't know what the future would be like.

But now, there is really no way to say that anymore.

The development of the Seris School is tangible.

"The reform of the Alterian language is imperative. Do you think that the Seres language should be able to replace it and become the official language designated by the empire?"

Gallo heard Roland talking about the superiority of Seres here, and suddenly realized something.

"Of course, I think Siris has such qualifications."

Roland made no secret of it.

In fact, the meaning of this sentence is the Siris School, and the members of the Siris School have such qualifications.

Gallo said: "In my opinion, the improvement plan introduced by the Autodox school is more superior, and it also takes into account the historical and cultural heritage of Atrine.

Although the Alterian language has various flaws, its foundation is equally deep, and what our school advocates is to optimize and improve without affecting these foundations.

If there are advantages in Siris, we will consider absorbing and accepting them. "

When the people nearby heard it, their spirits lifted.

Lei, Oxea and the others were also secretly shocked.

They heard the tit-for-tat confrontation, and also heard the respective propositions and development routes of the two leading figures of the school.

This is no longer an ordinary dispute and debate, but a confrontation between schools and lines.

This is a frank exchange of views between the two, and each has expressed its position.

After the opening ceremony of the association ended, several reporters rushed to their respective newspaper offices with excitement on their faces.

Expedited analysis, comments, and just a few hours of effort, the communication that was not too tense at first was hyped up and became a formal confrontation between the two schools of thought.

"The confrontation between old and new forces, the two schools will eventually confront each other! "

The winner of the "Young Morning Star Award" speaks harshly, and the Art Rhine language will be eliminated! "

"Mr. Rowland Refutes Criticisms Against Seres One by One"

"Roland declares: Cyris is the best magic language in the world!" "

There is a saying that laymen watch the excitement, and experts watch the way. Ordinary people see these freshly released news, just as a pastime, but people with discerning eyes have already seen that Roland is setting up a pole and raising the banner to cooperate with the government. The Autodox school party is coming.

In fact, according to the general strategic arrangement, one should accumulate food widely, build walls high, and become king slowly.

However, school disputes are no different than others. People from the Autodox school have already held many important positions, and can have an impact on their funding and drafts. This set of low-key development tactics is not easy to use.

Gallo and the others will not relax their vigilance because of Roland's low profile, nor will they give up the opportunity to chase and intercept.

Instead of this, it's better to earn a reputation and make it clear that the chariot and the horse are fighting against each other.

At this time, it coincided with the liquidation of the committee at the end of the year, and the formulation of some plans for the coming year.

There is an important news has been passed out.

"This year's fiscal deficit, we plan to cut some unnecessary projects in the coming year, and concentrate more resources and funds...

A hearing will be held in the near future on the decision on whether the colonial rule of the Kingdom of Lena will continue.

At that time, there will be a package of plans, including the introduction of resolutions in various fields such as politics, economy, and culture. "

(End of this chapter)