Chapter 18: Expression
What is the purpose of the Magician's text?
For a while, none of the twelve trainees answered Fahan's question. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 infoNo one wants to rush to answer a question that they are not sure about, let alone in front of a first-level magician like Senior Brother Fahan.
Fahan looked at them and shook his head.
Just when everyone didn't know why Fahan suddenly shook his head, Fahan smiled and spoke.
"As I said earlier, the essence of words is expression. The Magician's Text...... Nature is also an expression. ”
Everyone was stunned, but they didn't expect Fa Khan to give them a first-hand text trap.
Yes, since the essence of words is expression, isn't the essence of the words of a magician expression?
"But the difference between the two is ......"
Fahan's voice drew them in: "The words used by the magicians are more precise and wider. There are no restrictions on the writing used by ordinary people. ”
"Restrictions?" one of the students asked. "Senior Brother Fahan, what is the restriction of words?"
"Very good question," Fahan snapped his fingers. "You come up. ”
The student walked over with some confusion, and the rest of the students didn't know what Senior Brother Fahan was selling, but he still walked slowly onto the stage.
When the skinny young man walked up to Fahan's side, Fahan turned his head and said to the remaining eleven students below.
"Next, I'll make a noise next to him. Then ask him to write on a piece of paper in the words of an ordinary person and describe the sound he heard. The student who receives the crystal ball, according to the description of the previous student and the voice he heard, leave your voice on this crystal ball. You can also continue to add text to the previous student's description and voice......"
"In order of seating, let's pass it over in turn, and see what this voice I make will look like when it reaches the twelfth student. ”
Everyone was interested, and Du Kang nodded thoughtfully.
Immediately afterward, Fahan whispered in the ear of the skinny young man.
As soon as Fahan finished speaking, the young man's brow furrowed.
He picked up the paper and pen, and the hand holding the pen hung in the air, but hesitated for a long time.
Seeing this, Fahan smiled and said, "You can use any method you can think of, the common language of the empire, or the rest of the descriptions, but only in words. ”
But the skinny boy was still a little hesitant.
The people down there are in a hurry.
"Write! What are you doing?"
"Isn't it just a sentence?
"I'm in a hurry, put pen to paper!"
"What a stupid ......"
At the urging of everyone, the thin boy finally left a voice on the crystal ball. Of course, no one else heard this voice, and Fahan set up a small barrier to prevent the sound from being heard by those behind him. And everyone could only hear the voice of one of the students in front of them from the crystal ball.
Then the skinny boy picked up a pen and wrote something on the paper.
The parchment was passed to the second cadet.
This student was the most eager before, but as soon as the paper came to him, he kept scratching his head.
He, like the first student, struggled to speak for a long time.
The performance of the second trainee made the people behind them even more curious, and they didn't know what Fahan had said to the first student.
The next scene is a little weird.
Before they got the paper, the students kept urging and even couldn't help but ridicule the incompetence of the people in front of them, but once the paper was passed in front of them, they were silent and hesitated.
Sam sat in front of Dukang, waiting for the crystal ball and pen and paper to reach him, but he didn't hesitate. Soon the pen and paper and the crystal ball were passed to Du Kang.
Dukang was in ninth place, and he chose to read the text description first, and then listen to Sam's voice in the crystal ball.
However, he couldn't help but be a little stunned when he looked at the twisted and twisted text descriptions of the previous ones.
The first skinny student wrote this sentence:
"The half syllable of the word ah is lowered, and the tail of the word must be extended continuously. The two combine to form a musical note. ”
What does this mean?
Du Kang frowned at the description of the second student.
"No, no, it's not a semi-syllable of the word 'ah', the word 'ha' is more accurate!"
Du Kang's brow furrowed even tighter.
But the third student's approach gave Du Kang even more headaches, and he left four or five sentences on the paper to describe the sound he heard in the crystal ball.
Completely confused, Du Kang could only give up on the description on the paper to speak, and he injected a trace of magic into the crystal ball.
"Gah¥%@?"
Du Kangmeng.
............
Soon, the twelve students all looked at the person in front of them with blank expressions.
The crystal ball returned to Fahan's hand.
"You can go down. Fahan held the crystal ball and sensed it, and waved his hand to let the first student go down.
Now, let's take a look at what the voice is like from the first person to the twelfth person. ”
Then the crystal ball released twelve sounds in turn.
From the first voice, it was easy to remember, but Du Kang was stunned when he heard it.
Because this voice is very different from the sound he left on the crystal ball.
If the sound made by the first student is still very similar to the syllable 'ah', then when it comes to himself, it is already 'ga'?
Twelve voices, in the end, turned out to be completely different!
"This ......"
Everyone looked at each other.
They didn't expect that everyone was a magic apprentice, and they couldn't even imitate their voices!
Fahan looked at the performance of the students below and smiled. Then an inscrupulous voice came out of his mouth.
Students: "??"
The voice of Fahan was different from that of all of them. Even the voice of the first person is far from it.
"The voice I just made is the language of a small tribe in the south. Fahan said slowly: "It probably means hello. ”
Students: "......"
What a hell!
Such a complex sound actually expresses the meaning of ...... Hello?
Fahan put away the crystal ball and paused.
"You see, I speak the language of a small tribe with my voice, but when I pass it on to the first student, it changes. And after the twelve people passed it, none of them were right. Don't blame the first person, any of you come up at a glance. It's a first-class magician. If he doesn't have a strong talent for voice imitation, he won't be able to 100% of the pronunciation standard when he 'hears' this voice for the first time. ”
Everyone nodded in convincing, indeed, although it was true. But even after listening to it, try to pronounce it yourself in private. I found it difficult to pronounce the same as Fahan.
"But Senior Brother!" one of the students couldn't help it. "Even if the pronunciation isn't entirely accurate, it doesn't seem to matter much, right? Can you still say 'hello'?"
When I said this, everyone felt that it made sense.
"No," said Fahan, "in this small tribe, the word has a slightly different end note, and the meaning becomes to die." ”
Fahan sneered, "Think about it, if you go to that tribe. I wanted to say hello. As a result, because of inaccuracy, it became a ...... to die."
"I ......" the student who asked the question couldn't help but be speechless.
No one spoke now. There are many countries and tens of thousands of tribes on the mainland. Even in some provinces within the empire, the same sentence may be 'ten miles of different sounds'.
"Also, as I said, you can describe what you hear in words. But......" Fahan raised the parchment in his hand. "Do you think anyone is right?"
Everyone chuckled and shook their heads.
Fahan suddenly said solemnly: "Don't think that this is a very inconsequential matter, in the wizarding world, some situations are very complicated. If you hear the voice of a monster while you are in the field scouting, and you tell your teammates, it is because of the wrong expression. Mistaking a king-level demonic beast for a low-level demonic beast, what will be the result?!"
"The words of ordinary people, in the world of ordinary people, cannot fully describe everything. Not to mention the wizarding world?"
Du Kang asked thoughtfully, "Senior Brother Fahan, what do you mean, the text of magic...... Well, it's a magic inscription. Can you fully express those things that are complex and cannot be described in ordinary words?"
Fahan glanced at Du Kang, nodded, and shook his head again.
"Yes and no. ”