1840Indian rebirth

For example, in Ma Xiao's memory, chrysanthemum was once just a plant, and fungus was once just a kind of food. Later...

But it is not easy for Indians to understand this concept, and even people in the pre-Internet era find it difficult to intuitively understand the changes in language and writing.

"Will language change?" Rainy Day expressed his doubts.

"Of course, otherwise why would the Apache language of each tribe be different, and why would there be so many languages ​​in the world?" Ma Shao said casually.

Rainy Day said: "Maybe they were created that way."

"What doesn't change won't be created." Mashao said, "Besides, isn't what we are doing now a change to language?"

He didn't say anything on the rainy day and frowned slightly. He still felt a little strange and didn't understand it well.

But he supported Mashao's idea and worked with him to improve the standard usage of Apache text and update the rules.

With the cooperation of the two, within a few days, the textualization of Apache language was basically completed. Although it is not perfect yet, it is already usable.

Twenty-six English letters, plus Arabic numerals and some symbols, form the cornerstone of this system, which is then combined into words using the "Chinese Pinyin Scheme".

In this set of Apache text, Ma Shao also added some bold expressions.

For example, he added a type of brackets that can enclose part of a sentence to eliminate ambiguity or better reflect logical relationships. Just like in mathematics.

In his view, the Apache language, which has only been spoken for a long time and has a lack of communication, is prone to ambiguity and ambiguity during use. Introducing some expressions from mathematical language can effectively solve this problem.

Nothing is more precise than mathematics.

In fact, he once considered introducing a wide range of mathematical language, including many mathematical symbols that have not been invented yet, but after trying it, he found that the typesetting was too messy, so he gave up.

The update rules for the language and characters have also been set. Since only Mashao and Yutian understand this set of characters now, there is only one very simple update rule: they need to agree.

In the future, when more people learn it, an "Apache Language and Writing Committee" or something like that can be formed to be responsible for revising the language.

"Now that we have writing, how should we promote it?" Yutian said, "Call the tribesmen over and let us explain it to them one by one?"

"Of course, this is an essential step." Ma Shao said, thinking for a while, "But I think we still need some auxiliary means."

"What auxiliary means?"

"You'll know in a few days." Ma Shao smiled and let it slip.

The next morning.

Rainy day and Ma Shao gathered fifty or sixty young tribesmen in the open space in the middle of the camp, preparing to teach them the new Apache script.

"I'll tell you some amazing news." Rainy Day looked at the more than fifty young students sitting in front of him with great interest, and there was uncontrollable excitement in his voice, "We invented - writing!!!"

He opened his arms and his face flushed, like an excited singer.

"..."

However, there was a moment of silence below.

The young people sitting on the floor looked confused, then looked at each other and started talking.

"Words, what are they?"

"seems very amazing……"

"I'm so hungry. I want to eat raw beef liver."

No one pays attention to writing at all. If it weren't for the fact that the rainy day is the high priest and the horse whistle is the awesome warrior and craftsman, they would not stay here honestly.

"Words, they are words, we invented words, you-" Rainy Day suddenly became a little anxious, but was quickly interrupted.

The horse whistle patted him on the shoulder: "They won't understand now."

Rainy Day sighed, then nodded: "You're right."

He no longer tried to make people understand the meaning of the words, but assumed the posture of a high priest and took out a piece of paper with letters on it.

"Look at the paper in my hand. There are twenty-six symbols written on it, and you must remember them like your own fingers."

"Remember me, ah, bo, ba, er, fo, brother..."

The young tribesmen seemed to understand but they knew they should obey the high priest's order, so they followed it one after another.

In the next few days, Yu Tian and Ma Shao took turns as primary school Chinese teachers, teaching Pinyin rules and some application examples to these dozens of young tribesmen.

It has to be said that the "Chinese Pinyin Plan" from 1958 is indeed a powerful plan. Although its most suitable language is Chinese, it still shows active vitality after being combined with Apache.

After only a few days of study and training, the first batch of students have initially mastered the use of words, and some talented people can even express themselves relatively fluently in writing.

At this moment, Ma Shao appeared in class with a leather bag and a wooden board engraved with grids, with a rather mysterious expression.

"Teacher Ma Shao, what is that?" The students looked at his expression and couldn't help but ask.

Rainy Day, who was sitting aside, also had a curious look on his face.

"I'm going to teach you a game." Ma Shao said, placing the wooden board in his hand on the ground, then opening his leather bag and taking out a stack of papers. There seemed to be a lot of words written on the papers and some patterns painted on them.

"Game?" People were even more curious.

Ma Shao randomly pointed at a student to sit across from him across the wooden board, and then asked everyone, including Rainy Day, to gather around him.

"This is a card. I have a total of sixty cards in this pile." Ma Shao pulled out a piece of paper on which a giant dragon was outlined with simple lines and colors.

"Blue... blue-eyed white dragon?" Some people recognized the words on the piece of paper.

"I learned Chinese characters well, that's 'Blue Eyes White Dragon'." Ma Shao said with a smile.

These pieces of paper are exactly the "Yu-Gi-Oh" cards he made, mixed with many Hearthstone designs.

Of course, whether compared with Yu-Gi-Oh or Hearthstone, the set he just designed is a low-end version, or a youth version.

The pattern is very simple, the rules are greatly simplified, the number of cards is only 60, but there are more words, the purpose is to help promote the words.

People in this era had little entertainment life, and the entertainment life of Indians was especially poor. He believed that this novel game could arouse people's interest.

If you want to win in the game, you must understand the text descriptions on the cards, which plays a role in promoting text promotion.

Ma Shao has also added a lot of Indian elements, such as "Thunderbird", "Great Spirit's Blessing", "Central Great Plains", "Tecumseh", "Sequoia" and other cards, as well as technological elements.

For example, "railway", "battleship".

We also designed some cards related to the United States, such as "American President Harrison", whose main effect is "Slaughter": kill all Indian characters on the field; and "Occasional Cold": it can only exist for one round, and will not exist for the next round.

That is, he died of pneumonia.

"The name of the game is 'Duel Card'. Both sides follow the basic rules and card effects to duel. Whoever makes the opponent lose all their health points first will be the winner of the duel." Ma Shao continued.

"What are the rules?"

"Let's start with the duel field, which is this wooden board. Look at the grids on it. These grids are used to place character cards, and these grids are used to place prop cards..."

"These small circles represent health points. At the beginning, stones are placed on them. Every time a point of health is reduced, one stone is removed. If all stones are lost, the duel fails."

After explaining the rules clearly, Ma Shao looked at the student opposite him and said with a smile: "Okay, you already know the rules. Now let's start the first duel."