There was a question in the Alliance Forum: How did language come about?
Natural evolution? God's creation? Born from social interaction?
The Alliance Language General Program puts an end to this problem:
"Language is a standardized form of expression with symbols and sounds created by the Alliance. Only humans have language."
And if you lose your language, you will no longer be human. This is the consensus of all Alliance members.
People refer to the symptom of losing language as mermaid aphasia, also known as Shikao aphasia.
This name comes from Luge's mother, the first person to lose her language and the last legal linguist in the alliance.
In Luge's memory, the Alliance has banned language research since his mother, and human language has become a creation of the Alliance.
Only human beings have language. Without language, they are not called human beings.
People who suffer from mermaid aphasia are called mermaids.
The mermaid lost her voice in order to grow legs, and the person who lost her language is just a mermaid who grew legs, and will evaporate as the sun rises.
So Lu Ge's mother was also the first mermaid to be evaporated.
As more and more mermaids were vaporized, linguists became a historical vocabulary overnight.
There are only the thinking pharmacists who inject pre-existing language into children, and the corpus tailors who create Newspeak.
Lu Ge became a corpus tailor. Changing "hello" to "nice you" and "thank you" to "thank you" every day is his whole job.
Until one day, a spacecraft was in danger and he encountered a monster in the rubble of space.
With a long black fish tail, it hung upside down from the top of the spacecraft like a spider, speaking human words to him.
According to the alliance's definition, anyone who can speak human language is a human being.
But according to the Alliance's definition, humans should have human appearance.
Then this one speaks human language but looks like a mermaid...
What, something?
Lu Ge's brain was overloaded for a moment.
1. Bai Qie Hei Gui Eighteen Languages Mermaid Attack × The Last Linguist Human Sufferer is probably a heartwarming story about a couple who hurt each other and revealed the darkness of the alliance.
Including but not limited to random acts of violence, supporting characters' wit, and three-dimensional view...
2. I am a fan of the micro-interstellar era, a laugh-out-loud space horror film with 30-cent special effects.
3. The protagonist inherits his mother's business and is an illegal linguist and a formal corpus tailor. It can speak eighteen languages, and after being sliced, the tissue can speak different languages at the same time.
4·What, you're studying linguistics? That's a miserable life.
5.2025.4.25 (Third edition)
Intention: May you be as free as a fish and as light as a deer
