Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 532 Speech

Liang En is very satisfied with the number of audience today. After all, this can be regarded as a very professional lecture, and it is already very good to be able to gather so many people to listen to the lecture.

At this time, he is also extremely thankful that his academic achievements are not in mathematics, otherwise, the number of people here may be fractured.

Soon, Professor Hunter walked up to the stage and began to briefly introduce Liang En. As Liang En's teacher, his introduction was naturally very close to reality, and it also attracted everyone's attention.

"——" Now, Mr. Liang, please give us a wonderful speech! "After the brief introduction, Professor Hunter took the lead in applauding, which immediately led to applause.

Although more than 100 people does not sound like a lot, when everyone gathered in a small room, their applause still sounded very warm.

"Hi everyone, I'm Liang En, a student like you a few years ago, and now I'm here to share with you my experience—" After taking the stage, Liang En quickly entered the state.

"Actually, Linear B was discovered by many people before I discovered and translated it on a large scale, but many records at that time were scattered, so everyone could not obtain enough samples for analysis."

"If you get enough samples, you will find that this language, which was the beginning of the entire European language system, actually has a lot of inheritance from today's language—"

Liang En explained this language, which can be called the ancestor of European languages, with vivid language, and interspersed some interesting stories related to archaeology. The venue became more and more quiet, and everyone was fascinated by these contents. attract.

"—Finally, thank you for listening to me so much. At the same time, I would like to thank Professor Hunter and the dean who invited me this time, thank you!" An hour and a half later, Liang En made the concluding remarks as planned.

This type of speech should not be too short or too long. If it is too short, the key points will be lost and the value of the speech will be greatly depreciated. But if it is too long, everyone may hear it, but in the end it is too tiring to listen to it. up.

After the speech was over, the students present were full of ideas, and some raised their hands to ask questions. This is actually a recognition of Liang En's speech every day, because if the speech is bad, everyone will definitely run away now .

Everyone is in the same major, so most of the questions raised are very professional questions.After all, this school can be regarded as a well-known local university, and the questions raised are naturally quite professional.

However, Liang En couldn't be troubled by these questions. After all, he has definitely not wasted his time there in the past few years. He can answer many things related to ancient civilization perfectly.

Professor Hunter under the podium was also a little startled at this time, because some of the questions raised by the students were bothering him, but Liang En's answers could wake him up and point out the key points.

Some of them had to look through the books to see which related research the question was asking about, but Liang En was able to answer it after a little recollection.

This knowledge is too broad, and being able to answer these questions clearly highlights Liang En's profound academic level, which also makes the professor feel that Liang En should have spent a lot of time and energy on studying after leaving school.

This also made the professor very satisfied with Liang En, because he had seen too many young but successful people who stopped studying after success, so he naturally admired Liang En, who studied normally.

Although as a university mainly focusing on science and engineering and business, University College Cork can only be said to be very average in terms of archeology and history, but everyone can still stand at the forefront of research.

It's just that compared with those schools that are more prominent in this area, they lack sufficient personnel and equipment, so the scope of research is relatively narrow.

Therefore, the students are not very interested in the deciphering of ancient Egyptian, which is Liang En's most important historical research. Instead, they focus on the translation of Linear b.

This is mainly because the languages ​​of Europe, especially Western Europe today, are greatly influenced by ancient Greek, and this linear script b is actually the earliest ancient Greek.

"—Yes, the deciphering of this language is also related to Greek. And it is also deciphering from the pronunciation just like when deciphering the ancient Egyptian language—" Under the questioning of the students, Liang En began to explain Decipher your own ideas.

Although Liang En's translation was achieved by directly injecting knowledge through cards, before he published the paper, he went through the process of the discoverer in another world according to some memories in his mind and his own discoveries.

This is a necessary process, because if the thesis wants to convince others, it must have a very reasonable reason, instead of just saying that I know the text, otherwise the thesis will not be passed at all.

It's just that when Liang En began to write his thesis, he discovered that the world's research on this kind of script had only advanced to the point where he knew that Linear B was a syllabic script, but there were also a few ideographic symbols.

At the same time, through the judgment of the archaeological site, everyone knows that some stone tablets record lists of items, and that some of the words represent numbers.

Almost all linguists are trying to guess which language this character corresponds to when they study this aspect. The problem is that a language can correspond to several characters, so that there has been no major problem for decades. breakthrough.

The difficulty Liang En faced was much smaller than others. On the one hand, he knew the real situation of this language through the cards; How to do memory.

So he also imitated that scholar and prepared three papers to fully explain this matter.

In the first article, she argues that Linear B has inflection.There is no inflection in Chinese, but there are such changes in many languages. Taking English as an example, inflection in English is divided into inflection and declension.

Conjugation refers to the change of verbs according to the difference in person, tense, singular and plural, etc. (such as work, works, working, worked).

The declension refers to the change of nouns, pronouns, articles, etc. due to case, number, gender, etc., such as (he, him and man, men).

This conclusion is drawn because many words in the found Linear b have the same prefixes but different endings.Immediately following this conclusion, Liang En published a second article.

In the second passage, he guessed which syllables had the same consonant based on inflected words.Take Japanese as an inappropriate example.

For example, the pronunciation of Japanese works may be ヲクス[wo ku su], working may be ヲキン[wo ki n], worked may be ヲケト[wo ke to].

According to the conclusion of the first article, if we think that these three words are inflected from the same word, then we can guess that the three syllables ク, キ, and ケ have the same consonants.

Of course, this is the simplest example. If you choose a longer vocabulary, you will find that this trend is more obvious.

These two papers can be said to have opened a new beginning for the whole research, because this got rid of the original part that had too much speculation, and entered the research with traces.

(End of this chapter)