The National Theatre at Krasbourg burst into applause.

The cultural elite present did not express their displeasure at being "represented" by the elf lady, and the approachable and knowledgeable Prince is indeed worthy of their love.

"Thank you to this beautiful lady for translating those greetings for me, in fact I am not proficient in all of these languages, but I have come into contact with the gnomes, dwarves, giants, dragon veins, and elves living all over the Far East during my travels, and have learned some of their dialects from those friends." Roland's expression turned serious, "You are probably aware of my intention in initiating this little game, there are many races living in the vast territory of more than 4 million square miles in our Far East, among which humans certainly occupy the status of the main nation, but the gnomes of Big Rabbit Nest Town, the dwarves of Icewind Dale, the sub-giants of Kitland, the dragon vein clan of Dragon City, the elves scattered in the jungle and the North Bay, and many other races with relatively small populations, they are all the children of the Kingdom of Kolas, and they are all compatriots of our Far Eastern family!" ”

"Since we are compatriots, there will be a need to communicate with each other, but all of you here have also seen that even you cultural elites are very few people who can be proficient in the languages of the above-mentioned ethnic groups, and in the face of the language barrier that exists in reality, communication between different ethnic groups will become extremely difficult, not to mention that the ethnic groups living in different regions have their own dialects, even if they are human beings, southerners may not be able to understand the dialects of northerners, and all the above-mentioned differences from language will create obstacles to the integration of our Far Eastern ethnic family. It is difficult for us to use the same language to establish a common cultural tradition, and without national feelings and cultural traditions as a foundation, how can we form a national consensus and unite the concept of a nation? ”

Roland's barrage of questions silenced the room. When it comes to "nation and state," intellectuals will always spontaneously awaken to a solemn sense of mission. Even the sentence that ridiculed the literati "slaughtered dogs more than they should, and most of them were scholars" did not come from the mouth of ordinary "dog slaughterers" - it was still the literati who reflected on and criticized the literati class.

"His Royal Highness thinks it is necessary for us to create an entirely new language that will become the official lingua franca of the kingdom of Kolas as a prerequisite for promoting national integration?" Vladimir stood and asked.

"Creating a unified language is easy to say, but it's hard to achieve, at least in our generation, because we already have a common script compared to language." Roland picked up the newspaper on the table and showed it to everyone, "Printed words—this is the common language of our intellectuals!" Ladies and gentlemen, I do not force you to create works that praise the government, nor do I force you to abandon your original creative style, this is not to show the open-mindedness and tolerance of the Koras government, but to state the fact that no matter what style or subject matter your works are, once they are published in newspapers and books, they will be published in the form of printed words, and anyone who wants to understand your works must first learn to read this kind of writing, and the common words have laid a common sense of national consciousness for us. The press and publishing industry, which carries your masterpieces, is thus shouldering the great mission of creating the nations of the Far East - it seems that it has nothing to do with your creation, but at the same time it is closely related! ”

The vast majority of the nearly 1,000 listeners present were poets and writers, who were real "writers" who were extremely sensitive to language and writing, and although the ideas expounded by Roland were somewhat abstract, they immediately resonated with these writers, especially Roland's sentence "This has nothing to do with your creation, but at the same time is closely related" made people feel a philosophical depth of thinking, and they couldn't help but be in awe and fall into contemplation.

Roland took a sip of tea to moisten his throat, his eyes swept over the attentive literary and artistic workers in the audience, smiled slightly, and continued to advance his speech from both depth and breadth, impressing the intellectual elite present with wisdom rather than power.

"A nation can have different races, a nation can have communities with different customs, nations can retain their own spoken language, different communities can retain their own dialects, but the whole nation must insist on the same script, the printed written language, which in three different ways lays the foundations of the nation-state consciousness."

"First of all, the printed language creates a unified tool for communication and communication on top of the spoken dialects, and people who have a wide variety of oral skills, such as dwarven, elven or giant, who would otherwise be difficult or even impossible to confront each other, can become mutually intelligible through the intermediary of printed fonts and paper."

"In the process of communicating in words, people gradually feel the existence of hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people in the field of language, and these 'fellow readers' connected by the printed matter form a common imagination, from which the embryo of a national community is born."

"Secondly, the oral language is often distorted, and newspapers and books are fixed from the moment they are printed, so that today we can read the works of our ancestors 300 years ago written on parchment – although this requires a little knowledge of ancient literature, it is difficult to understand the tone in which our ancestors greeted each other 300 years ago, and if an ancient man came to me and said 'good morning' to me, I would be so confused that I could not understand what he was saying, but as long as he wrote it on a piece of paper. Good morning' and the communication barrier between us will also be gone. ”

"It can be seen that the 'printed text' gives the language a kind of fixity, which is based on newspapers, periodicals and books, and has passed the test of time without being distorted, thus providing documented and precedent evidence for the survival of 'national tradition' and 'national history'.

"Third, the printed language is also known as the 'official language', and the word 'official' gives it legitimacy, making it an important tool for promoting national integration and national unity."

"The division of nations always stems from the division of cultures, and the integration of nationalities always begins with the integration of cultures. When your works are published in newspapers and periodicals, readers from all over the Far East and all ethnic groups can understand them, and they will consciously or unconsciously imitate the language of newspapers and periodicals, and teachers in schools will use this printed language to educate their students. ”