Months passed, and I had to forget about it.

One day, Zhao Yuyang came to me and took out a draft of several thousand pages, which were full of dense small characters.

I was stunned: "You're all cracked? You wrote it yourself? ”

For the first time, I felt small!

He said triumphantly, "I finally found the pattern!" I cracked ninety percent of the vocabulary, and I cracked their grammar! ”

I quickly sat him down and asked for good tea to be served to him.

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He triumphantly went on:

"What kind of dictionary do you talk about, in fact, this alien system does not distinguish between words and words at all.

However, we can think of the twenty-six letters that are separated by spaces and punctuation as words, just like the words we make up of a few words.

I studied their patterns, and I couldn't figure out how many days I hadn't slept for days.

In the end, I completely abandoned our thinking, like a newborn baby, I thought with a blank mind, and finally understood!

First of all, their words are different from ours.

At the beginning, I noticed that some similar words came up repeatedly, but each time there were small differences, some at the end, some in the middle, and some at the beginning.

They can't be okay, they must be different manifestations of the same thing. For example, the 'apple' in their noun is not the same as the 'apple' in 'two apples', and the 'beating' in the verb 'hit someone today' and 'hit someone tomorrow' are also different.

Through this reasoning, I have found tens of thousands of basic words, which can be replaced by hundreds of thousands of other forms of words.

Secondly, their sentences are not the same as ours. The order of the words in their sentences is different from ours, and many of their prepositions cannot be omitted, and the positions are also strange.

I guess they're conventional, we think they're weird, maybe they're weird.

Finally, the two are also extremely different in their thinking.

They have a lot of things that we don't have, and I'm not talking about all kinds of airplanes, cars, or anything, but the most essential kinds.

For example, there is no emperor in their country!

There is no emperor!

There is no emperor!

There is no emperor!

It's not that there is no emperor as a person, but there is no concept of an emperor!

There is no such concept!

Conception!

Conception!

Their emperor had been replaced by some other chief—we don't have the words to refer to it, I don't know what it was—and it was weird that this leader could be changed every four years.

I seem to have read about a tenant who farmed the land and robbed the chieftain of the house, and asked others to judge him, and in the end the chief failed.

What surprised me the most was that their leader was chosen by the people!

Sky!

The boss can still choose!

What authority does the chosen one have?

In short, you can't compare our world to theirs at all.

I'll tell you how I made their alien system match our Chinese system one by one.

I first built a system that is completely different from our Chinese characters, which is self-consistent and can be completely independent of Chinese characters and Chinese. Then I mapped the alien system to ours one by one.

When I was a kid, I used to play this game with my brother.

We were afraid that others would read our private messages, so we invented a new word of our own.

The new characters and Chinese characters correspond one-to-one, but there is a rule, nothing more than reading 'ㄅ' as 'ㄆ', 'ㄇ' as 'ㄈ', and 'ㄉ' as 'ㄊ', which is very simple.

However, there is no pattern in the replacement of foreign words into Chinese words in this dictionary, and you can only correspond to hundreds of words through those hundreds of pictures first, and then expand them little by little with logical reasoning to write down their correspondence.

I kept trying and making mistakes day by day, at first I couldn't understand one a day, then I could distinguish several a day, then dozens, faster and faster.

When tens of thousands of such correspondences are recorded, this 'irregularity' becomes the rule.

My brother and I used to play the same little trick that the decoder table was just a piece of paper, and guess how many decoders there are now? ”

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Zhao Yuyang excitedly held up his draft: "Thousands of pages!" I haven't closed my eyes for months, and I've cracked tens of thousands of words! ”

I flipped through the drafts, and the shock in my heart was beyond words.

Zhao Yuyang marked every foreign language (because they are "foreign" languages, I call them "foreign languages") with Chinese words, and then translated every sentence in foreign language into Chinese sentences.

I've always been conceited, and I've never looked down on others, but today I realized the meaning of "a mountain is still a mountain high".

I asked him, "Can you read those words?" ”

He scratched his head at this time: "The voice is completely uncompared, I can't figure it out." For example, balls, they write 'ball', and a ball is drawn next to it. I knew it was balls, but the devil knows what he reads. But the pronunciation is not important, it is the meaning that matters. It's like the dialects of Lingnan, Gyeonggi, and Liaodong provinces, which almost can't understand each other's dialects, but what is written is the same, isn't that okay? ”

He suddenly flipped through the papers, pointed to one of the papers, and said, "Look at this thing." ”

I saw an entry "China", and the diagram next to it was clearly a map.

I actually recognized that this was the map of the Ming Dynasty, or rather, the map of the suspected Ming Dynasty.

The eastern coastline is exactly the same, and even the Yangtze River Island, the first island in the world at the mouth of the Yangtze River, is there.

The difference is that it has borders to the north, west, and south, and there are several islands in the Eastern Sea, which are significantly larger than the Yangtze River Island, which only shows one point.

Four billion people know (well, those who have read a small number of books) that the north, west, and south of my Ming Dynasty are boundless places of death, and there is not a single island in the East China Sea.

At this time, I suddenly felt that something was wrong - the earth is finite, and how could those overseas provinces be boundless?

I haven't thought about this kind of thing for more than 20 years.

I call myself smart!

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I recalled the past with a serious expression, and Zhao Yuyang was still talking about his feelings:

"It's so fun and exciting!

Their way of thinking, their way of thinking, their way of seeing the world is completely different from ours.

I now even think that people who know a language don't know a language at all.

You would think that people who only know one language are idiots.

You may even have the feeling that someone who has only experienced one world has actually experienced nothing.

I can even arbitrarily say: people who live in only one world are not people!

Not people!

Brute!

Like a dog!

Because they don't know anything!

Because they can't think!

It's like dreaming, what you think in your dream, it's all fake, because it has no connection with reality!

The dictionary itself is reality itself, matter itself, consciousness itself, power itself, the world itself, and humanity itself.

Dictionaries transform humanity and the world through language and thought; Otherwise, why did the emperor repair the dictionary all day long?

No wonder the punishment for compiling a dictionary is much harsher than writing a banned book.

If you write a forbidden book, it is just the execution of the whole family, and if you make up a dictionary, you will ask the ten clans to be late!

Do you think, you even use the emperor's words when you speak and think, can you be disloyal to the royal family?!

I remember a forbidden book saying that a dictionary is power, and power is a dictionary.

I still laugh at it!

It turns out that it's true!

Damn it! ”

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I suddenly felt scared, could this be the forbidden book of the forbidden books?

You always say that I think heretical, and now your words are enough to punish the ten tribes.

I hurriedly said to him: "Zhao Yuyang, listen up, shut up for me!" Don't tell anyone about it, anyone! Someone grabs the handle and it's over! No kidding. ”

He said: "Don't worry, you can let the world read this book, I dare to say, there are 4 billion people in the world, no one can understand it except me!" I asked my eunuchs to copy a few drafts, and I sent this one to you to read first, and when I had finished studying it, I returned the book. Don't worry, my subordinates are fine. ”

I clasped his hand and said, "Don't take it for granted, it's best to be careful, and keep a hand on everyone." ”

He nodded, so excited that he even wanted to come and hug me.

I remembered something and pushed him away.

When I got back, I bound the manuscripts into a book and looked at them often.

Every time I read it, I was shocked.

One in ten of the words has not yet been translated, some of the words are clearly mistranslated, some of them are very cumbersome but necessary, and there are many contradictions—but this shows the truth.

I even think this book is more accurate than the three books that Dog's Leftover Dad gave me.

This book is just a description, not a way to tell you what's right and what's wrong.

Those three forbidden books were clearly the opposite of the royal law; Whatever is prescribed by the royal family, it has to be reversed.

This is the end of the story of this mysterious book, and when it appears again, it will be many years later.