Chapter 505: Breathtaking Text

Professor Wang Wujian's eyes flickered, and he was silent for a moment, but still didn't say anything. What he was thinking was, don't overturn the table and challenge the master.

Professor Zhao Zi, who is standing next to him, specializes in Finnish and has studied all Nordic languages. His idea is exactly the opposite: the more you debate something, the clearer it becomes.

"Teacher Gu, the common languages we hear include inflectional languages, agglutinative languages, isolating languages, and polymorphic synthetic languages. What kind of language is Quenya?" Professor Zhao Zi raised his hand first, and only spoke after the other party called his name.

"Agglutinative language." Gu Lu responded affirmatively.

Zhao Zi nodded. This was within his expectations. According to the example of the elegy, it was definitely not an inflected language like French, nor was it an isolating language like Chinese.

"If it's an agglutinative language, then the affixes in Quenya are very confusing," Zhao Zi said. "At least I can't find any pattern. Of course I'm talking about this elegy."

To put it mildly, but language without logic can be fatal.

This question is definitely like a knife.

Agglutinative language is a language concept. Xiao Huang and Xiao Lu looked around, hoping to find a classmate to explain it to them.

In anime, people always like to have passers-by explain things. It is a necessity. Otherwise, how can we show how awesome the protagonist is?
Fortunately, this is a Peking University classroom and there are talented people among my classmates.

"In an independent language, each word has its own meaning. In an agglutinative language, the meaning is distinguished by affixes. Japanese is a typical agglutinative language."

Then the student gave an example, 私 (わたし) is the Japanese word for me, and if you add the suffix の to the end, 私の becomes 我的, but の itself is just a modal particle, unlike the Chinese word "的" which has an independent meaning. 書く means "write", and with the suffix いた, the meaning becomes "write".

"No wonder you have to read the whole text in Japanese. It's hard to guess the specific meaning without reading the whole text." Xiao Huang suddenly realized. Whether there is a suffix or not has a huge impact on a sentence.

Back to the point, the affixes are very confusing, what does that mean...

The students looked at Gu Lu, but they didn't know that there was no tension on the latter's face.

"Because in addition to the familiar nominative, accusative and genitive, I also added the dative, ablative, directional, instrumental, locative and adjective cases." Gu Lu said, "I won't explain the subject, object and genitive. I'll use the elegy as an example. Laura is the ablative form of Laur (gold), so it becomes (like gold)."

Gu Lu explained the nine-frame system in detail and gave many examples of words. Zhao Zi felt somewhat familiar when he heard it.

"I believe everyone present here should have some idea of what is going on. Yes, these systems come from Finnish." Gu Lu wrote [Comparative Case] [Commendative Case] on the blackboard. "In my design, these two case systems were abandoned along with the evolution of writing."

Finnish has more than a dozen case systems, it's so complicated. Professor Zhao Zi's psychological activity is - Gu Lu actually knows Finnish, I haven't heard of it... Wait, "A Man Called Ove Decides to Die" is a love letter to Finland.

Although Zhao Zi hasn't seen the film, he seems to have heard many of his Finnish friends say that Ove is the person who best represents Finland, just like Uncle Sam represents America.

He had always thought that Gu Lu was just joking about knowing Finland, but now seeing that he drew inspiration from Finnish when creating the language, it seemed that he was really familiar with it.

"The reason why Professor Zhao Zi believes that there is no regular pattern in affixes is that in addition to the nine nominal cases mentioned above, Quenya also has a more common special case created for Quenya." Gu Lu clicked and the PPT page changed.

The above fully demonstrates the 10 grid systems.

"rómens means the East, and the special case change of the word rómenna represents a specific place in the East," said Gu Lu.

"Beige... It's a bit like the position representing the location, or like the dative case... It's a very vague case system." Zhao Zi said, "Is this intentional?"

"Yes, that's right. The evolution of language is towards more and more convenience and accuracy. Just like in my design, comparative and facilitative cases are abandoned. And the words with different cases will gradually become clearer as they evolve, and thus be replaced." Gu Lu said, "From the perspective of the development of Finnish, this is the case."

Zhao Zi couldn't help but stand up and applaud. "The pronunciation changes refer to the history of changes from Old English to English, the word form and structure refer to the evolutionary history of Finnish, and through the unique designs of Bige, there is no sense of incongruity. Teacher Gu, you are a linguist who has been delayed by novel writing." "The skeleton of English and the flesh and blood of Finnish. The outer skin, that is, the writing style, draws on Greek characters. It is a very legendary text." Wang Wujian also gave a similar evaluation. What amazed him most was that Quenya, a very complete language, actually left room for language evolution. It was outrageous!

After all, professors would not swear in public, but their eyes and expressions all express their current emotions.

"Quenya. The creation process is enough for the students who come to this class to write graduation papers."

"From a linguistic perspective, the Quenya language family created by Mr. Gu can even stand on par with Esperanto."

The professors were talking about it in a flurry.

Very good. Although we didn’t see King Gollum being humiliated, seeing the shock of these professors was also very good for Xiao Huang and Xiao Donkey.

"By the way, what have you been filming since the last class?" Xiao Huang asked curiously.

“Of course I’ll film it and upload it to the Internet, so that those foreigners on YouTube can see what a great artist is.” Xiaolu said naturally.

Another class is over.

Compared to the previous class, this one was even more complicated. If there weren’t knowledgeable classmates explaining things, I wouldn’t even be able to understand what the professors were debating!
That night, the young couple met again.

"I shouldn't say such things." Gu Lu apologized to the girl with super strength.

"I'm not angry," Zhou Lin said, "I would have forgotten about it if you hadn't mentioned it."

Come on! I can tell from the WeChat chat that you care about me.

"I shouldn't have belittled your career." Gu Lu apologized sincerely.

"...Actually, you're right. Making money from business is definitely not as good as writing. Writing is creative." Zhou Lin said, "It's just that I'm really working hard on this matter. I also try hard to make time to go to Venice because I care about you very much and I like to travel with you."

Zhou Lin speaks directly.

But Gu Lu suddenly realized that he had a golden finger. If he didn't have a golden finger, don't even think about it... Of course, if he had one, then he had it, so don't even think about it.

I suddenly realized that I couldn't stand tall, so I ignored the efforts of others, especially my partner. Looking down on others is never equal.

"It's my problem. I will reflect on it carefully." Gu Lu said.

"What do you mean by self-reflection? That's not the answer I want to hear," Zhou Lin said.

Gu Lu was puzzled, "Huh?"

"What I want to hear is that I also like traveling with you and going out to play together!" Zhou Lin said.

The female one is better at flirting, and King Gollum is no match for her at all.

He repeated what he said, which meant that the previous conflict was over.

The two are also preparing to go to Venice...

(End of this chapter)

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