Chapter 4175

In fact, he didn't understand at all. This paragraph was spoken in English, all adjectives and function words, and even nouns were few. Although learning English is not difficult for electronic life, this obviously exceeded the scope of learning English and was a big test for the electronic life's language logic module.

The Resource Department secretary didn't pass the test; obviously, he wasn't advanced enough. Although the Supreme Intelligence had passed the test and understood that the Resource Department minister just wanted to fabricate some environmental work and show his face, he had no way to deal with this long string of words.

Because there was no specific subject in this long string of words, nor were there any clearly referred pronouns; all the subject matters became adjectives describing adjectives, so much so that you couldn't even say "this is not a reasonable reason," because this wasn't even a reason.

But the wonderful thing is that it was also not not a reason. It was nothing; it sounded like this kind of life created by God, which looked very perfect, finally reached the end of its design life and started to have program errors and garbled characters.

The Supreme Intelligence finally knew why this remark had to be spoken in English, because no advanced language could express it this way.

For example, although the interstellar common language they use now is an alphabetic language, that is to facilitate the combination of spelling and pronunciation to speed up learning. But in essence, the word formation method is very concise, and there is no grammar; it can be said forward or backward.

And because this is a language created out of thin air, there is no development process, so there is no legacy code. Every word has its clear meaning, and none of them repeat. Although there are word roots and affixes, that is to facilitate the association of synonyms, and its laws are unchanged, very easy to learn and understand.

And the language of electronic lives is even more concise, nothing more than 0 and 1. It can even be said that their language is mathematics, and there is no need for any messy things; only the most basic mathematical laws are needed to express their meaning.

And the languages used by the vast majority of carbon-based life races that can come here are also highly specialized. Because most of them have developed for many years, and the language has also been iterated many times, most of the ones retained are relatively concise, or have some very special advantages; the legacy code was eliminated long ago.

There are even civilizations that have evolved very advancedly, similar to the Klintar star, writing the language directly into the genes, and then distributing a directory to each person; reading a few syllables according to the directory can express a long string of words. Some races, like those big octopuses caught before, simply evolved brainwave communication ability; they don't even need to speak, just read brainwaves directly.

If they want to find that kind of very redundant legacy code language, they probably have to dig up ancestral graves. Things that record ancient languages like English are either tombstones or funerary objects, and there are no languages still in use.

And this also leads to the very high communication efficiency of the entire Interstellar Council; if there is something, say it; a meeting can be held for five to ten minutes, which is considered very long. Some simply meet, exchange files with each other, and it's over. And the reason why they still meet, not purely online communication, is also to take care of those relatively backward civilizations, going through the motions, not that they can only communicate face-to-face.

This led to most politicians being amazed when they learned English.

What is politics most afraid of? What politics is most afraid of is "talking about business."

High-efficiency languages have a natural disadvantage in political debate; the lower the efficiency, the better the debate effect, because the essence of political debate is to wear out the old man.

Everyone knows that standing there and fighting with words has no meaning, but they still have to fight. Then at this time, the only way to possibly win the word fight is to chatter and talk about this and that, wear the other party out, make the other party not realize your language trap, leading to mistakes or speaking without thinking. Although primitive, it is effective.

The political fields of intelligent life are all similar; although there are many races here that won't be sleepy, if they hear too much nonsense, they will still be confused. Therefore, political debate compares who can mix the most nonsense in a unit language length to confuse the opponent's sight.

However, because the languages of most of their races have been iterated very concisely, and the expressions are very short, they are equivalent to chickens pecking at each other in this regard; they didn't talk for two sentences, and there was nothing to talk about.

There is another aspect, that is, in the same time, the more nonsense said, the less business can be talked about. If the language is too concise and can't mix in much nonsense, then they have to be forced to talk about business. No politician wants to talk about business, especially the kind of business that can't bring them benefits, so of course, the more nonsense, the better.

But if you deliberately mix nonsense into it, it's a bit too deliberate, so they can only do their best. But the whole process is still too short; the general meeting of the Interstellar Council only lasts two hours, and the entire election is over in one afternoon. If this were on Earth, it would take at least half a month.

And the appearance of English let them see another possibility: although the nonsense that can be mixed into it is small, if the language itself has a lot of nonsense, that is a natural advantage!

English not only has various subjunctive moods and prepositions, clauses that guide you and me, but the most important thing is the huge adjective vocabulary.

Many people feel very strange when learning English, why one vocabulary can have many unrelated meanings, while one meaning can correspond to many completely dissimilar vocabularies.

This is because English is a language composed of foreign languages, borrowing words from various languages, or taking the affixes of various languages and then forming other word roots.

Some people took a word from German, so they used this word to describe something; but another day they took one from French, used this word to describe the same thing; and felt it wasn't enough, took a word root from Spanish, and continued to describe this thing; there were also little smarties who fused German and French, added some Italian, and created a new word.

Adjectives are the hardest hit area. Many people think that two adjectives with similar meanings are different in degree; some are indeed like this, but more are actually no different, just because the origin and the era of joining English are different, they became two words.

This kind of legacy code language can simply be called the oracle of the political world. Every politician must thank the hard work of the word creators of the past, allowing them to have the ability to stand there and talk empty words for several hours. If it weren't for this language, how many politicians would have exposed their empty brains. But as long as you remember enough adjectives, you will look like a great eloquent person full of wisdom.

And those useful viewpoints that seem to be intercepted from the nonsense are actually not what they thought of; it's more like letting all the monkeys in the world press typewriters; as long as they press enough times, they will eventually form Shakespeare, full of the beauty of probability.

And for the politicians of the Interstellar Council who came into contact with this language for the first time, they finally found their Bible. The brain development degree of this group of aliens is mostly higher than that of humans, and memorizing all English words is not a problem. They can even memorize the several languages from which English originated, and then create on the spot. This wave, this wave is thanking Great Britain for open source.

Some are happy and some are sad. Politicians are happy, but electronic lives are tragic.

As everyone knows, electronic lives are logical lives, and logic pays the most attention to efficiency, and what it hates most is legacy code. In their view, that is proof of incomplete evolution. At least in the view of electronic lives that have not yet ascended, their lifelong pursuit is the shortest logic.

Very unfortunately, with just one language, their immediate boss embarked on a path completely opposite to their evolutionary direction, and ran wildly all the way. As of this morning, the difference between the entire council district and the British Parliament building is that the hair volume of the Interstellar Council gentlemen is relatively large.

A group of humanoid creatures wearing British retro suits, opening and closing their mouths is "Good morning, dear lady," "Oh, the weather today is really terrible," "Is the Queen (Shi'ar Queen) still the same?", and some even posted the Arabic numeral 10 at the door of Strange's office, just missing two guards wearing furry high hats riding horses standing there.

If electronic lives are seeing ghosts, then Strange is basically equivalent to seeing God. When he had the morning regular meeting, he was stunned and fell asleep four times.

And he didn't fall asleep the fifth time, not because the hypnotic effect was not enough, but because Dream-Power Doctor Strange was busy repairing the dream dimension, and saw Strange going in and out there. Originally, the repair progress was not satisfactory, and there were people coming to make trouble, so he kicked Strange out with one foot and blocked him.

Now Strange is miserable; he can't even enter the dreamland to escape reality for a while. He was like traveling to London overnight. After the meeting, he didn't hear a single bit of substantive content, and his head was full of that low, cow-like British accent.

He walked back to the office shakily, actually not awake yet, and then saw Schiller walk in wearing a suit. He was also wearing a British suit, the shoulder line was very flat, and there was a small bulge at the shoulder seam. Strange was startled and woke up.

"God, why are you wearing this too?!" Strange was almost screaming, and he said, "What on earth is going on? Is this universe a huge Britain?!"

"So you don't like Britain?"

"Why would I like Britain?"

"Is that so? I thought your favorite entertainment activity was to take a harpoon to spear pigs when you were bored on weekends, come back covered in blood and scare the landlady to death, and then play the violin in the middle of the night, destroying the sleep of your military doctor roommate."

"What a mess!" Strange shook his head and said, "Are you not awake either? Wait. Military doctor roommate? Are you talking about Holmes?"

"So you've read Holmes? You don't look like the kind of person who would read detective novels."

"Because I didn't read that as a detective novel. I skipped the parts about solving cases."

"You skipped the case-solving parts in a detective novel?"

"Yes. I just watched them drink tea, watch opera, and so on. But when did Holmes take a harpoon to spear pigs?"

Schiller seemed to think of something very funny, he laughed to himself twice, and then stopped talking.