Demon King, Don’t Run Away Chapter 1326: Words are also a kind of painting
[There was a power outage, so I haven’t finished editing or writing, so please forgive me]
In Yang Yu's original world, there were many languages. Different words can be divided into different types through different origins, different structures, etc.
Although different, each type of writing needs time to settle.
This time lasts for hundreds of thousands of years and requires the efforts of countless people.
Even in the same region, as long as civilization dies, different languages will be born.
Even if a civilization continues, their language will be continuously polished over a long period of time, causing the words they originally spoke to be very different from the words spoken by their descendants.
Yang Yu didn't know how long the ancient civilization had died, but from the "Chronicles of the Elves" it can be inferred that it had a history of at least tens of thousands of years.
Tens of thousands of years are enough to change a lot of things.
In Yang Yu's world, the king from more than two thousand years ago would never have imagined that the future world would no longer need a king to serve.
Over the course of thousands of years in this world, there may have been movements to crowd out the old culture and promote new culture. The old characters may have been regarded as a symbol of suffering and obsolescence, and were gradually replaced by new characters.
Over the course of thousands of years in this world, civilizations may have been divided, and each created characters during disputes. The old characters were gradually split into symbols that each faction thought were easier to remember.
No one can tell what will happen in tens of thousands of years.
The end result is now that the existence of magic is taken for granted, and written culture is completely separated from the old era.
Yang Yu realized that if he wanted to communicate with the ancient man in front of him, he needed to use a relatively primitive but often used method.
The rough man did not put Hemeng down, but kept playing with it as if he had got some novelty, tentatively using magic power to stimulate Hemeng, and Hemeng sprouted countless spikes like a thorn ball, and then appeared like a thorn ball. It inflated like a balloon and flew in the air.
Yang Yu walked forward towards the rough man. He didn't know the rough man's temper, so he could only hope that his character wouldn't be too bad.
Aware of Yang Yu coming over, the rough man stopped stimulating Hemeng, allowing Hemeng to return to his original appearance and look at Yang Yu without saying a word.
Despite the language barrier, Yang Yu did not show hostility toward him and won a lot of favor from the rough man.
Yang Yu was not overly flattering, but simply handed the rough man the page with the translation in his hand.
Seeing the words on the page, the rough man snatched the page from Yang Yu's hand without saying a word and looked at it carefully.
After a while, the rugged man fell into deep thought.
Yang Yu took this opportunity to take out a sketchbook and a paintbrush.
The rugged man noticed Yang Yu's movements and turned his head. Yang Yu tapped the sketchbook with a pen without hesitation and smiled.
The rugged man didn't say anything, he just looked at the page again, trying to see something from it.
In ancient times, before humans invented writing, they mostly used the art of painting to thoroughly record what they saw and heard and pass it on to the next generation.
Some scholars even believe that the fire of civilization appeared only after the skill of painting was born.
Words are actually a kind of painting, but compared to the majestic and huge paintings, they are simpler, simple but covering a lot of things.
A mural recording a majestic epic may take years or even decades to complete, but a simple "painting" using words only requires a few stone tablets and can be completed in months or even days. , record something relatively completely.
This change in efficiency gives the culture a certain possibility of inheritance.
Even if the shape of language changes, as long as humans still know how to inject meaning into specific symbols and form words, then humans will definitely develop a new civilization.
Different civilizations only need to return their "word paintings" to their original nature and express the meaning contained in the word paintings in more detailed paintings, so that they can communicate with each other.
If Yang Yu could use painting to complete preliminary communication with the ancient person in front of him, and let him learn the language from scratch like a child, he would definitely be able to hear ancient stories from his mouth.
It may be time-consuming, but Yang Yu has to do it.
As long as the "reason" is explained clearly to him, Yang Yu can leave it to the hands of some "educators" and take his time.
The only problem is that using figurative paintings to communicate may lead to certain ambiguities, and it is difficult to explain things that are too complex with paintings.
Yang Yu can only paint in a way that he thinks is more intuitive.
The first thing Yang Yu used to show was the purpose of their coming here. Only by showing that they had no intention of harming the man and eliminating the man's concerns could they continue to talk.
Taking into account the man's patience, Yang Yu started writing quickly. Although abstract, he mostly expressed the future context clearly.
The first picture of Yang Yu is of [Blood Earl] leading his men to ravage the city, the second picture is of receiving orders from the Emperor of the Luoze Empire in danger, and the third picture is of finding the Slime King for help. The fourth screen is their action route, with all the previous action nodes marked...
Step by step, the picture came to their current scene.
Rough inspection
If Yang Yu could use painting to complete preliminary communication with the ancient person in front of him, and let him learn the language from scratch like a child, he would definitely be able to hear ancient stories from his mouth.
It may be time-consuming, but Yang Yu has to do it.
As long as the "reason" is explained clearly to him, Yang Yu can leave it to the hands of some "educators" and take his time.
The only problem is that using figurative paintings to communicate may lead to certain ambiguities, and it is difficult to explain things that are too complex with paintings.
Yang Yu can only paint in a way that he thinks is more intuitive.
The first thing Yang Yu used to show was the purpose of their coming here. Only by showing that they had no intention of harming the man and eliminating the man's concerns could they continue to talk.
Taking into account the man's patience, Yang Yu started writing quickly. Although abstract, he mostly expressed the future context clearly.
The first picture of Yang Yu is of [Blood Earl] leading his men to ravage the city, the second picture is of receiving orders from the Emperor of the Luoze Empire in danger, and the third picture is of finding the Slime King for help. The fourth screen is their action route, with all the previous action nodes marked...
Step by step, the picture came to their current one.
A cursory inspection of Aldavado’s group text, Stephen Dear