Guo Kang actually didn't know whether Monk Daoyan was representing the Ming Dynasty official or mainly on his own behalf. Fortunately, the impact is not very large. Even if he doesn't have official responsibilities in this area right now, it's worth consulting him and understanding his reaction.

However, Monk Daoyan still did not give a clear answer, but looked at Xiao Rangna and the others, waiting for them to ask questions first.

And little Jeanne was not polite, and came up and asked, "Are you sure that others will also recognize your special status?" ”

"Of course." Guo Kang replied without hesitation: "Didn't I say it, the information of the Han Dynasty says that the Great Qin State is close to the Central Plains." This is what the ancestors determined more than a thousand years ago, whether it is true or not, check the classics, you will know, what is there to doubt about this. ”

"Okay......" Seeing Guo Kang skillfully carrying out the ancestor, Xiao Jeanna had no choice but to admit it.

She thought for a moment and asked, "Then can you organize a structure similar to the Central Plains?" ”

"Of course, isn't it now." Guo Kang said with a smile: "Our civilization is more developed than that of Rome and Greece in the past, and even the language and writing have begun to be unified. It's obvious. ”

"How exactly is this done? Can we refer to this? "Princess Jeanne was clearly interested.

"Of course you can, everyone's problem is similar anyway." Guo Kang introduced: "Our experience is how to use Chinese characters as the basis to reorganize a set of lingua franca. As long as this goal can be achieved, it makes no difference whether to use the Greek alphabet or the French alphabet. ”

"For example, now, for children who have just started school, we will first give them a booklet called "Four Words of Opposites", which can read and write by looking at pictures. Because there is an advantage of Chinese characters - according to our people, this is not learning to write, but learning to draw. Learning stick figures from the original drawings is of course very simple. ”

"While learning these hundreds of hieroglyphs, the children also have to learn 24 Greek letters. These letters, along with their corresponding pronunciations, can be used to phonetize Chinese characters. Once both sides have been learned, the system is set up. ”

"What's that saying?" Zhu Wenkui said curiously.

"In their minds, a Chinese character is a stick figure instead of a long string of characters." Guo Kang said: "It's like if I draw a sun, and then this sun can replace a string of letters." ”

"Also, the sun stick figure has nothing to do with the local dialect. Whether he originally spoke the 'sun' in the Greek language of the mountains or the 'sun' in the Slavic dialect of the Kyiv region, it can be represented by such a simple 'stick figure'. ”

"You can think of it as a script from different languages, but it's not really true – Chinese characters are also very versatile and can be used in almost any situation. The glyph and pronunciation of this thing are not linked, and theoretically any dialect can be used. ”

"Also, it's so 'information density' is so great for beginners. Therefore, the promotion is also very fast. Not only schoolchildren, but even adults, and even adults in different regions and speaking different languages, can use the same system. ”

"How do you solve the grammar and pronunciation?" Princess Jeanne asked.

"Uh......" Guo Kang didn't expect that she still thought about it a lot. But after thinking about it, it seems to be normal.

In France in those days, aristocratic women often had a higher level of education than male aristocrats. She should also have a special grammar education, so she still knows how to do it.

"It's not hard to pronounce it. Like Chinese characters, the Greek alphabet is actually universal. Guo Kang explained: "These letters are phonetic symbols to put it bluntly—then of course they can be phonetized in all languages, including Chinese." ”

"Therefore, within the Khanate, everyone also used the dialect of Greek phonetic, but Chinese had a written language, and other languages did not have a written language."

"The Greek alphabet is not a script?" Princess Jeanne was surprised and said, "Well, doesn't Latin count?" ”

"It's really a matter of definition." Guo Kang told her: "We think that the alphabet is a phonetic symbol system, not a written word. Because the letter itself has no meaning, it is just a coded symbol. In our opinion, 'Wen' is a pattern, which means a pattern that embodies information through the shape itself. Therefore, only Chinese characters are the 'characters' in what we call standards. ”

"Is this a deliberate attempt to disparage other words?" Princess Jeanne was skeptical.

"There's no need for that." Guo Kang smiled: "I have done a lot of research in this regard. I can attest that Chinese characters are the only and real characters. Other writing systems have more or less essential problems that cannot be remedied. Only Chinese characters are the perfect solution. ”

"Since the Yuan Dynasty, we have seen and even used too many words. From Uighur to Latin, we have experience and are well aware of their problems. He explains: "These spelling languages are not phonetically and semanantically consistent. And this is very fatal for the lingua franca of an empire. ”

"Just as at the time of the Great Flood, the Father favored the East alone; After the Tower of Babel, there was only one original writing left in the world. In contrast to the chaotic language and writing methods that emerged after the time of the Tower of Babel, Chinese characters are the "words of Eden," the true words promised by the Father. ”

"There are too many examples of this to mention. If I am interested, I can provide information in the future. He said: "Our practical experience over the years can also prove this." ”

Princess Jeanne looked a little unwilling, but nodded in acknowledgement.

Guo Kang is not surprised by this. The French aristocracy still has some emotions about their own language, and people in other places are actually more exaggerated.

Like the 'original writings' and 'Eden writings' that he just blow, they are really not his own inventions, but the previous world, European scholars themselves blew up.

Although it may sound counter-common sense, and few people promote it, at that time, there were not a few European scholars who advocated direct learning of Chinese.

Compared with the French, the English scholars next door, whose writing was more backward and looked down upon in Europe, were even more fanatical. Francis Bacon and John Locke, among others, published works that directly pointed to the chronic problems of alphabet writing, arguing that only a language like Chinese could solve these fundamental problems.

In 1669, John Webb published a research article with a straight head: "Historical Essays: On the Possibility of the Language of the Chinese Empire as the Original Language." In 1678, when this work was reprinted, it may not have been felt straightforward enough, and he added a sentence "On the possibility that the language of the Chinese Empire was the lingua franca of the world before the Tower of Babel".

In terms of bragging, Guo Kang's level is actually like that. He blows all the rest of the Europeans themselves......

(End of chapter)