At the end of the semester, some professional courses with fewer class hours have ended, and the teachers have begun to assign us various homework for the final assessment. Because the Internet has been very developed, contemporary college students have become proficient in technologies such as borrowing, analogy, transfer, and transcription, and teachers naturally understand this truth. Therefore, in order for us to at least have a "production" process for our homework, the well-intentioned teachers require handwriting when assigning the final assessment homework. In addition to this, we are also required to complete an academic year thesis. Therefore, all kinds of large and small assignments add up to more than 20,000 words, which is comparable to a graduate thesis.

Handwriting is much more troublesome than "copying and pasting", not to mention that in addition to doing homework, we also have to work part-time, fall in love, play games, stay in Internet cafes, spend night at KTV, and participate in the 3Q war...... How can you waste your limited life on manuscript paper? As a result, everyone began to use their brains to try their best, and when they encountered two courses with similar types of homework, they simply "married one girl and two others", and the teachers were not the same anyway. If you can use punctuation, spaces or line breaks, you will never write Chinese characters, and if you can quote the literature of your predecessors, you should try to quote the original words. It's like writing a novel and injecting water, if you can do it, you won't use your hands, and if you can't use your brain, you won't use your brain.

Therefore, at this time, if a teacher says that the final assessment homework does not need to be handwritten, we will worship him as a god. And she is the beautiful teacher of "Introduction to Linguistics" in her sophomore year, Sister Weiwei. Now she teaches "Comparative Linguistics", and when I first got the timetable at the beginning of the school year, I was still a little scared, and this most beautiful teacher in the whole major is really hard to mess with.

After all, I had a mistake in Sister Weiwei's class, so I listened very carefully this semester, and I remembered my notes very carefully. Later, I slowly found out that it was the same as linguistics, but the content of the two was very different (it may be that I really didn't pay attention to the lectures in my sophomore year).

Our study of comparative linguistics is mainly about comparing Chinese and English, since most of us have only studied these two languages. There is a view that language is a worldview that reflects the different worldviews and values of the people. Sister Weiwei always releases a smile attack from time to time when she is in class, so that I, who is sitting in the first row, often bump into the deer in my heart. However, her teaching is really very high-level, she is proficient in English and Chinese, she explained in an easy-to-understand way, combined with examples, to help us sort out the development of Chinese and English, and lay a good foundation for the future teaching of Chinese as a foreign language to face language differences, and I also found some interesting things from it.

Although Chinese and English belong to the Sino-Tibetan language family and the Indo-European language family, there is an inexplicable connection between the two. First of all, geographically, Tibet and India are separated by the Himalayas, and it is not difficult to "go down". Secondly, both were simple vowels when they were first formed. (This should also be the original state of most of the world's languages.) Also, Chinese is a multi-ethnic fusion of languages like English, with the difference being that Chinese is constantly sinicizing the surrounding peoples, while English is often conquered (and even helped by the Black Death). The most interesting thing is that the grammar of modern English is very similar to that of ancient Chinese, for example, it often uses the postposition of prepositional phrases. After a few lessons, my mind was blown away and I was reminded of the Tower of Babel in the Bible, where it was said that people used to speak the same language......

This curiosity made me interested in linguistics, and I even began to reopen the "Compendium of Linguistics", and then interspersed with the knowledge of ancient literature and history, a novel idea arose in my mind: I once suspected that the Da Yue clan in the Western Han Dynasty was the predecessor of today's Turkey, because the pronunciation of "Da Yueshi" is "Da Rouzhi", according to the natural law of language weakening and falling off, and in the process of migration, it was influenced by the Altaic language family and the Indo-European language family, and slowly became the current name of "Turkey".

It's just that there is no exam for this "Comparative Linguistics", and it is also an assignment assessment, otherwise according to my learning attitude and interest in my junior year, I may be able to improve my grade point.

At the end of the class, Sister Weiwei threw us a topic: the difference between the use of verbs VV and V+. She asked each of us to write a 2,000-word research report and organize the corpus of testimony into an appendix.

"Teacher, is it handwritten?" I don't know who mentioned it.

Sister Weiwei smiled slightly, and replied to us without thinking, a classic quotation of the gods:

"No handwriting, I don't want your ink, I want your thoughts!"

As soon as these words came out, the whole class boiled. A few of us who had been "defeated" under her pomegranate skirt suddenly smiled, and vaguely seemed to see a light blooming behind Sister Weiwei, she was like an angel who came to the world! Over the past few days, everyone has been "handwritten!" by one teacher after another! The trick attack made both hands "broken and broken", and this time I finally met a "benevolent teacher", and everyone in the classroom cheered, almost wiping tears.

In the beginning, we didn't care about the assignment that didn't need to be written by hand, and we habitually labeled it as "easy", "easy", and "fast", and we all started two days before the deadline. Anyway, there are many shoulders of giants, and they are stepped on wherever they are stepped.

However, when I really did it, I didn't know that this was a "trap" for Sister Weiwei. As soon as many students go back, they want to go to Baidu and CNKI, search for the works of their predecessors and then revise and revise them, but they soon find that they have no way to start. This is the direction of Weiwei's own research, and all relevant references will find Weiwei's name. In other words, whether it was copied or not, Sister Weiwei knew it at a glance. Therefore, everyone can only do research obediently.

Sorting out the corpus is the basic work of linguistic research, if we are asked to collect sentence by sentence from daily life temporarily, then it will not be enough time for us to have a whole year, but fortunately, the beautiful Sister Weiwei pointed us to the direction of the shortcut - the corpus of Peking University.

For those of us who study linguistics, this is simply as great as CNKI. There are thousands of sentences in the corpus, both modern and ancient. It is said that the students of Peking University entered it sentence by sentence under the leadership of the teacher, and it is really the predecessors who planted the trees and the descendants who enjoyed the shade

The corpus has a retrieval system, but it does not allow for advanced searching, only by word or term. As a result, we often find a lot of useless corpus in a search, and if the scope is narrowed down, then the value that can be used for reference research is gone. One or two sentences of corpus cannot prove our own opinions, so we need to look for relevant materials related to VV and V+ in thousands of sentences, like gold panning.

With only two days left before the assignment was due, our entire dormitory was overwhelmed by studying. No one thought that compiling the appendix was the most tedious and time-consuming task of this report, and I also have obsessive-compulsive disorder, so the corpus must be neatly formatted. Each of us has sorted out a corpus of more than 10,000 words, and even if we summarize and sort it out, it will be a thick stack. But when you put your heart and soul into something, there are always unexpected rewards. In the process of constantly sorting out the corpus, I also have my own answers to the questions raised by Sister Weiwei, and my thoughts are like springs, and only 2,000 words can't contain my thoughts. People are forced out, and the report is written in half a day.

When I printed out all the reports, bound them with appendices, and held them in my hands, it was very rewarding, like I had published a book. There seems to be an advertising song of backgammon ringing in my ears: "There is justice in the world, there is always a reward for paying, it is better to do it, or do the best......"

Later, Sister Wei Wei seemed to be very satisfied with my point of view, and when I checked my grades, I found that she actually gave me a chance to fantasize about scholarships!