Starting My Treasure Hunting In England

Liang En is very satisfied with the number of listeners today. After all, this can be regarded as a very professional lecture. It is already good to be able to bring so many people together to listen to the lecture.

At this time, he was extremely glad that his academic achievements were not in mathematics, otherwise, the number of people here might have broken bones.

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

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

Although more than a hundred people did not sound like a lot, when everyone gathered in a small room, their applause still sounded very enthusiastic.

"Hello everyone, I am Liang En, a student like you a few years ago. Now I am here to share my experience with you -" After taking the stage, Liang En quickly got into the mood.

"In fact, Linear B was discovered by many people before I discovered and translated it on a large scale. However, many of the records at that time were scattered, so we were unable to obtain enough samples for analysis."

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

Liang En used vivid language to explain this language, which can be called the ancestor of European languages, in simple and easy-to-understand terms. There were also some interesting short stories related to archeology interspersed with it. The venue became increasingly quiet, and everyone was fascinated by these contents. attract.

"——Finally, thank you all for listening to what I have to say. 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 not be mentioned, which will greatly depreciate the value of the speech. But if it is too long, everyone may hear it, and in the end they will be too tired to listen. .

After the speech, the students present looked like they were still unfinished, and some raised their hands to ask questions. This was actually a recognition of Liang En’s speech every day, because if the speech was bad, everyone would definitely run away by 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, these questions are not difficult for Liang En. After all, he has definitely not wasted his time there in the past few years. He can answer many questions related to ancient civilization perfectly.

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

Some of them had to flip through the book to see which related research the question asked about, but Liang En was able to start the answer after a little recall.

This knowledge is so broad. Being able to answer these questions clearly highlights Liang En's profound academic level. This also makes the professor feel that Liang En should spend 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 stop learning after success, so he naturally admired people like Liang En who studied regularly.

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

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

Therefore, the students are not very interested in the deciphering of ancient Egyptian, which is Liang En's most important study in history. Instead, they focus their interest on the translation of Linear B.

This is mainly because today's languages ​​in Europe, especially Western Europe, 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 just like when deciphering ancient Egyptian, it started from pronunciation——" After the students asked, 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 still went through the process of the discoverer of another world based on some memories in his mind and his own discoveries.

This is a necessary process, because if the paper wants to convince others, it must have a very reasonable reason, rather than directly saying that I know this text, otherwise the paper will not be passed at all.

But when Liang En started writing his thesis, he discovered that the world's research on this kind of writing had only advanced to the point where he knew that Linear B was a syllabic writing, but it also had a few ideographic symbols.

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

Almost all linguists working on this aspect are trying hard to guess which language this script corresponds to. The problem is that one language can correspond to several scripts, so that for decades there has been no big change at all. breakthrough.

The difficulties faced by Liang En were much smaller than others. On the one hand, he knew the true situation of this language through the cards, and on the other hand, he had another world's important codebreaker Kober in his memory. Memory of how to do it.

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

In the first article, she believed that Linear B had inflection. Chinese does not have morphological changes, but there are such changes in many texts. Taking English as an example, morphological changes in English are divided into conjugations and declensions.

Conjugation refers to the changes in verbs based on person, tense, singular and plural, etc. (such as work, works, working, worked).

Declension refers to the changes in nouns, pronouns, articles, etc. due to case, number, gender, etc., such as (he, him and man, men).

This conclusion was drawn because many words found in Linear B have the same beginnings but different endings. Then based on this conclusion, Liang En published a second article.

In the second article, he used inflected words to guess which syllables had the same consonants. It’s not very appropriate to give an example in Japanese.

For example, the Japanese pronunciation of 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 conjugated 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 longer words, you will find that this trend is more obvious.

These two papers can be said to have opened a new beginning for the entire research, because they got rid of the original part that had too much speculation and entered into a traceable research.