"Thank you all for your love. I am able to achieve this thanks to the guidance of my husband, Mr. Gao."
Xu Youzhi's speech immediately aroused the climax of the audience. The first sentence As soon as he finished speaking, there was a pause, and there was endless applause. Obviously, Xu Youzhi somewhat underestimated the influence of his own compilation of pinyin, simplified characters, grammar, dictionaries, dictionary, and children's books.
This far exceeds the original influence of the words, because now almost every powerful and wealthy merchant in the Ming Dynasty has one or two works by Xu Youzhi. Especially the grammar, subject, predicate, object, definite adjective and complement almost simplified the five or six years of teaching in private school by repeatedly reciting its meaning. In fact, even among the young scholars of the Ming Dynasty, there are still many people who are confused about grammar, whose words are ambiguous or whose words do not express their meaning.
Fortunately, in the past, the imperial examinations were very restrictive, otherwise the erratic personality of many people would immediately come to light.
What's more, a dictionary published not long ago completely clarified a misunderstanding that "only women and villains are difficult to raise." Confucius has always been the same as the family and the country. If there is no statement, we must first look at the family's perspective. to understand. The women, sons, and villains in the family are not the despicable people that Ming Dynasty is today, but people from Xiaozong. Therefore, the original intention should be about matters within the family. First of all, it is difficult to coordinate with wives, concubines, children and other people of the same clan and small clan.
This sentence also completely overturns the past denial of women since Wu Zetian. Since Confucius always regarded wives, concubines, children and other people of small sects side by side, what reason is there to deny women? Is it necessary to admit that the Xu family is among the poor women, but there are few gentlemen and kind men? Have you figured out your preface and afterword?
What Gao Hanwen did is too high-end, but what Xu Youzhi worked on is indeed practical for the creators of these storybooks.
"Thank you, thank you. I'm sorry, it's my first time to speak on such an occasion. Although I study primary school, I may also be inconsistent with what I say. I hope you'll forgive me."
"Don't applaud. Okay, I’m about to get to the point. I don’t have the habit of chatting for half an hour before getting to the point like Mr. Gao did.”
At this point, the applause stopped, and everyone stopped. Take out the quill.
In any case, everyone Xu’s words are worth taking notes. Maybe an idea can inspire you
"First of all, everyone must believe in the power of words. If you have an emotion or a concept, you can look through our dictionaries but can't find the right words. For words, remember to come to me and we will create new words together. Unless it is a plot design, remember to use old words to express new ideas. Unless the plot requires it, do not use new words to express existing concepts.
These will directly increase the confusion of language. Think about it, gentleman and villain clearly mean the son of the big family and the son of the small family. Over the past few hundred years, they have added moral connotations, which makes us confused. They all presume to understand the sages' articles, but they are wrong without knowing it.The storybook is destined to be the most widely circulated popular story in the future. If you deliberately or fail to prevent such arbitrary changes in the meaning of words, it is conceivable that maybe a hundred, fifty, or even twenty years later, we and our descendants will be faced with talking about ourselves and chickens. The situation where the same thing is said and the literal meaning is taken for granted. ”
“If we don’t know at all, we will still try to find out what it means. But if we think we know, is it terrible? To protect the purity of Chinese language, it is the responsibility of every scholar to reduce the polysemy of a word as much as possible, reduce the number of words with one meaning, reduce the change of word meaning, and safeguard the inheritance of cultural context. And to take on this responsibility, I hope to start from the author of our storybook. ”
Xu Youzhi’s words seemed to hit the ground. After finishing speaking, the audience was stunned for two or three times and immediately burst into thunderous applause. It was really thunderous, and even Gao Hanwen clapped his hands red.
Gao Hanwen himself mentioned this in his previous manuscript, but he didn't put it at the beginning. Obviously, Xu Youzhi, as a native of Ming Dynasty, had a profound understanding of this problem.
In fact, the simplest and most effective way to destroy a civilization is to artificially create polysemous words and synonyms to accelerate the change of semantics. In this way, the experience and lessons of previous generations cannot be passed on. You are ignorant, old emperor. You only need quotations from thousands of years ago to govern a huge empire. Because there is no fixed language, the people in the empire have no brains, and there is no need to fool the people. Even if everyone is literate, there is no need to have effective in-depth communication. .
The reason why Gao Hanwen's original time and space advanced rapidly in various industrial revolutions was mainly due to the establishment of Western European linguistics, especially grammar. The plasticity and combination of morphology make English and other Latin scripts more adaptable to the changing needs of communication words after the industrial revolution while keeping the meaning of the root words unchanged. There is still a long way for Chinese to fully obtain these two advantages. There is still a long way to go, and it has not yet been completed. The research on modern Chinese is not only unfinished, but the Internet vocabulary is also a mess, and all kinds of new words and concepts are deliberately played. The essence is that they dare not mention the old. Words are afraid of people's contextual connection, which prevents people from discussing the essence of the problem, and only adds to the confusion of communication.
If it doesn't work, you can only change the language. After all, it is just a tool, and you can't give up the purpose for a tool. . It’s just that this lesson is a big project. Please remember to bookmark it and read it for free without any anti-theft.