Chapter 6 The Creation of Words (Overhaul, Removed Bugs in Civilization Transplantation)

The two days and nights passed quickly. Immediately after Blade Ya returned, he proposed to the witch doctors to formulate a set of length standards for the convenience of unifying the size of the clay tablets, and gave his own plan.

He used his own height as a benchmark and made a long clay tablet, and stipulated that this was 'meter (m)'. Using this as a benchmark, he 'created' millimeters (mm) (only concepts), centimeters (cm) according to the decimal system.

cm), decimeter (dm).

Obviously, for the sake of his own convenience, the pronunciation, writing, and abbreviations were all copied from his previous life.

As for the difference between the current 'one meter' and the 'one meter' in the previous life? He actually has no idea at all. Even though subjectively he feels that his height is about 'one meter' in the previous life, the change in the object of observation changes everything.

Comparisons are meaningless.

Who knows whether it is one centimeter or 100 meters? But, who cares? Anyway, it doesn't matter to him.

Of course, just having the unit is not enough, you also need to have the matching numbers.

Under the dazed eyes of the witch doctors, Blade Ya stretched out his hand, showed ten fingers in sequence, then retracted them all, and wrote a '0'; then, he gestured in turn and carved '12345' on the clay tablet.

'; After '5', in order to express clearly, he put down the bone pen in his hand without bothering to express it clearly. After clearly indicating the exact number of fingers with both hands, he picked up the bone pen and carved a '6', and then '

The same goes for 78910'.

Then, he turned his hands twice for '20', then for '30' three times, and so on until '100', he stopped and looked at the witch doctors.

He felt a little uneasy. Although he was accustomed to all this, and he could make up nonsense about the shapes of numbers, he was not able to explain clearly to others the expression of '0' and the concept of 'every ten adds one'.

Although they are crude, and although the number is pitifully small compared to his previous life, they are finally on the right track.

"Yes, the yard, the size of the house; the slate, the pen, the feeling in the hand; the skull of the little wolf, the skull of the big wolf, how much water is filled. Fixed, measured. But, there is no rush."

Over the next long period of time, they entered a state where no matter what they saw, their first reaction was to write it down.

"Well, yes, I understand."

"Baya, good! Useful! More? Are there?"

The old witch doctor did not agree with Blade Ya's opinion. Why was it useless? These things were so useful.

"It's easy for us to learn; but soldiers can't learn it for a long time."

"It's difficult. Long and short are easy to determine; those are hard to determine."

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Witch doctors are smart, and their wisdom cannot be underestimated. They quickly accepted this convenience.

Of course, the pronunciation is still in Troll language.

But the witch doctors were not satisfied. They thought of the 'phonetic text' that Benya Zengjin gave as an example.

The witch doctors are worthy of the name of ‘wise men’. The moment Blade Ya finished speaking, he already understood what he wanted to express. The oldest witch doctor stroked his beard thoughtfully and said,

"Harder."

"Let me try."

Tell them that they can 'make' it in this way and unify what they have recorded.

'For my own convenience, I transplanted Chinese characters like this. Is Chinese really suitable? The trolls may become stronger quickly, but won't they become a soulless civilization? Is this really what I want?'

He would break into a cold sweat every time he dreamed about it at midnight, and began to thoroughly reflect on his own selfishness and recklessness.

This made Baiya let out a sigh of relief. Liberal arts students who knew this but didn't know why didn't have the ability to teach them these things. It would be great if they could understand it on their own.

Originally, he wanted to do it in one step and directly transplant the complete modern Chinese, from the glyphs to the pronunciation, and even the grammatical structure.

After all, how convenient would that be? He could almost push the troll language forward for thousands of years in an instant.

However, in the days since this idea appeared, every time he fell asleep at night, there was one, no, countless messages from his subconscious, as if the knowledge he had forgotten in his previous life was converging into a whole to warn him, "Don't do it."

so'.

It was only after this painful experience that I came up with the push that I am now trying to achieve.

One part is obviously a 'pictogram' with a roughly square structure; the other part is an imitation of the 'letter' system.

"Difficult, but useful."

"Speech, also, symbol, is more important."

Blade Ya is mainly showing them two ways of determining characters, one is pictographic, and the other is phonetic.

He did not directly teach them Chinese characters, even the "hieroglyphics" and "alphabetic characters" only gave them a general idea;

After many attempts, the excitement gradually cooled down. The three witch doctors soon frowned. The oldest one pondered for a moment and slowly said,

The characters are not Chinese characters, just pictograms; the pinyin is not the pinyin of any previous life, just written down randomly to make an analogy.

The rest is left to the witch doctors to take care of themselves.

This is inevitable. Even at the hieroglyphic stage, troll writing is quite difficult for tribal trolls who are not witch doctors, but Blade Ya feels that they are already very powerful.

After receiving the approval of the witch doctors, Blade Ya took a clay tablet and a bone vessel filled with water from the side, and slowly poured it over it. After a while, the clay tablet softened to the point where it was just enough for carving, and he

Put down the bone implement, pull out the bone pen from your waist, and carve some symbols on the clay tablet.

The witch doctors also expressed their approval. The long-standing "habit becomes natural" cannot cover up the inconvenience of the current witch doctor inheritance system. As long as the outermost layer of some things is peeled off, the rest becomes a matter of course.

.It's okay that the concept of 'words' has not been brought up. Once it is brought up, it will create a yearning for it.

In this way, it only took a relatively short period of time for the witch doctors to initially establish a writing system based on the original troll language.

Blade Ya didn't take it for granted, he pointed at one of the 'pictures' that looked like a tree and said,

"'tree','shu'"

Fortunately, the witch doctors are all wise men. It seems that they have already understood these numerical symbols, the definition of distance units, and the subsequent profound meanings without any further explanation from Blade Ya. This point can be seen from their faces alone.

You can understand the changes, from confusion to excitement in just a moment.

No matter how smart the witch doctors are, they can only understand that these are symbols with certain meanings. At this moment, they are waiting eagerly for Blade Ya's next explanation.

At this time, the witch doctors turned their attention from the clay tablet to Blade Ya, as if they wanted to see clearly why this little troll was so special, but they could only think of these things that could be broken with a poke and have far-reaching significance.

And have more expectations.

In the evening, after everyone had finished their work, they took the words they had "created" and started to compare them with each other, and found out which "glyph" everyone recognized, which became the confirmed "troll text".

"Urgent! It's useful!"

The three witch doctors looked at each other with expressions of deep understanding. "Words" are good things, but they are not easy.

After all, no matter how primitive a society is, they already have a clear concept of the names of common objects, and they are reflected in the language accordingly. It is not appropriate to make them artificially.

"This, well, warriors can learn it!"

The witch doctors who decided to absorb the strengths of the two families created a set of rudimentary 'phonetic letters' based on the pronunciation of existing words. Together with the ideographic pictographic troll script, they formed a set of mutually correctable letters.

The troll writing system.

Seeing that there were so many things to learn, Bao Ya complained silently,

‘You can’t escape the fate of learning a foreign language even after traveling through time?’
Chapter completed!