Linguistic Terms

He is a professor of linguistics, and he speaks a lot of professional jargon. His family members don't understand it well, and he doesn't explain it. When his wife was ill and hospitalized, he visited her every day and talked about "pragmatic functions" and "semantic fields", and his wife smiled and nodded. After his wife left, he stopped talking, and his children thought he was speechless. It wasn't until I sorted out the belongings and found in his notebook that he wrote: "After she left, I realized that those terms were armor. In fact, there were only three words I wanted to say, but I never said them in Mandarin in my life." He marked those three words on the last page using International Phonetic Alphabet, and it took his children a long time to spell them out - I love you.