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Chapter 257: Great Face

The Internet is an irresponsible amplifier. Any viewpoint or event can be infinitely amplified through this medium.

Qiao Yu had heard this view before, but this time he felt it particularly strongly.

The number of people in the live broadcast room has always been over 100,000. Obviously this is not the upper limit, but just the upper limit displayed in the live broadcast room.

As for the barrage area, it has never stopped.

Although the staff of Ziziyuedong synchronized the domestic and international live broadcast rooms for him on site, Qiao Yu always focused most of his attention on the domestic live broadcast room.

Firstly, the English letters are densely packed together, which hurts the eyes to recognize; secondly, the atmosphere in the international live broadcast room is not as good as that in the domestic one.

Of course, this is also related to Qiao Yu's personality.

Who isn't a person who enjoys online fun these days? After all, China can really eat its fill now.

As we all know, humans are very peculiar creatures.

When you are hungry, as long as you are awake, you have only one desire, which is to find food.

Once you are full, all kinds of messy desires will come. There are many people having fun online in China, which means that everyone is probably full.

Coincidentally, Qiao Yu is also a fun-loving person. He also likes to watch fireworks. If you chat with your family, you will easily find many like-minded people.

If it weren't for the pressure from Lao Zheng, his mentor and his master, he might have really wanted to help test the security of trading markets around the world under the instigation of a bunch of netizens.

He did it for no other reason than to let everyone have a good time.

However, Qiao Yu was not completely indifferent to the comments made in the international live broadcast room.

In fact, he had seen a few of the previous comments about football and sports. The main reason was that there were too many discussions.

Although China has few friends internationally, there are always some who speak well of it.

So Qiao Yu decided not to be too partial. He had interacted enough with the netizens in the Chinese live broadcast room, and he also planned to interact with those netizens from abroad.

The entry point is actually easy to find. Just then, someone was discussing why China's science and technology are developing so fast and why there are so many scientists.

Some even say that almost all of the cutting-edge technological competition in the world today is basically a competition between the Chinese in China and the Chinese Americans in the United States.

For example, the executive vice president of Microsoft's artificial intelligence department is Chinese. As we all know, the current competition in artificial intelligence is a competition between Chinese and Americans, and people from other countries cannot even get on the table.

People are even talking about the fact that the annual Olympic Games is a competition between Chinese and Chinese people.

"Dear brothers and sisters of China, I mentioned in the previous promotion that this live broadcast will be conducted simultaneously on the domestic and international servers. I have been interacting with you all just now, so next I plan to interact with some friendly international netizens in the international live broadcast room, so I will answer some questions in English."

After saying that, Qiao Yu directly switched to English mode.

In fact, the recording was done with the same lens, but Qiao Yu could see the comments of netizens in both the domestic and foreign live broadcast rooms at the same time.

However, when Qiao Yu starts speaking English, the domestic subtitles will switch synchronously.

“Welcome to all the foreign friends who are watching this live broadcast in the international live broadcast room. I just noticed that you have been discussing a topic.

That is why China has given people the impression that science and technology has developed very quickly in recent years. Especially in the training of young scientists, it seems that there has been a qualitative leap compared to the past.

While we are testing the deep trading system of the exchange, I can briefly talk to you about this issue. Of course, it is just my humble opinion, so please just listen to it.

In addition to the old-fashioned issue of basic education rate, I actually want to talk to you about whether a certain language is suitable for learning and development.

I don’t know if you have noticed that, although English is one of the most important languages ​​in the world, it was not naturally suitable for learning when it was first designed, and it can even be said to be against human memory habits.

Let me give you a simple example. A week has seven days. In Chinese, we use a number after the day of the week to distinguish different days.

So when we first come into contact with the language, to distinguish the seven days of the week, we only need to learn the word "week", the numbers 123456 and the word "day".

But if you are learning English, then I'm sorry, from Monday to Sunday, these seven days, you need to memorize seven completely different words.

What a stupid design! Why can't we just use numbers to distinguish the days? There is a word for the week in English, so wouldn't it be enough to add a number after it?

For example, week 1, week 2, week 6 and the last weekday... See, isn't it simple and easy to understand? When you go to kindergarten, will it be much easier to learn like this?
The same goes for months. When we are first taught in China, we need to recognize the twelve months. We only need to learn one character for the month, and then use twelve numbers to express it clearly, but you need to remember twelve different words!

There are many other problems. For example, pig is a word, meat is a word, and pork is another word. This was very confusing when I was learning English.

So why can't we just put the name of the animal and the word "meat" together to make a word that is easy for people to understand, but instead we have to invent other words?
Some people still think that English is the most efficient language! This is so stupid! This writing system is extremely unfriendly.

I think this is one of the most important reasons why your civilization quickly entered decline after experiencing explosive growth! I saw a report from you saying that 30% of adults in English-speaking countries have dyslexia.

Is this your problem? No, it's not! This is the problem of your language system. The people who designed your language were too stupid to make it difficult for ordinary people to read by artificial barriers!

So if you want to change this, the first thing you should do is not to ignore the role of sports. Instead, you should reform your writing! First, you should make the writing more suitable for reading, so that you can cultivate more scientists!
If you don't believe it, you can check the history and see what we did after the establishment of New China! Yes, we simplified Chinese characters.

The change from traditional Chinese characters that were difficult to learn to simplified Chinese characters that were easy to learn ushered in our technological explosion. Look at the regions that still insist on using traditional Chinese characters. Have they fallen behind in the technological competition over the past few decades?

Especially in Chinese, there are no spelling errors, no singular or plural changes, and you can distinguish various tense changes with just a simple context. Dyslexia is a rare thing in China!"

As soon as Qiao Yu said this in all seriousness, the comments in the international live broadcast room suddenly increased at an exponential rate!

Obviously, Qiao Yu's words touched the hearts of many people.

Is English difficult to learn? Actually, it’s not that difficult…

As long as you have enough vocabulary, grammar is actually very simple. Even if you don't understand grammar at all, as long as you have enough vocabulary, at least you will have no problem with listening and speaking.

Little-known fact: basic sentence structures are understandable to everyone, and daily communication does not require overly complex grammar.

But the problem is that there are too many words. Little-known fact is that the total vocabulary of English is over 20,000 words... Even if you don't need that many words in your daily life, you still need to memorize at least 4,000 to 5,000 words to cope with daily communication.

Qiao's metaphor undoubtedly opened the door to a new world for many people in English-speaking countries.

It makes so much sense! As the youngest Fields Medal winner in history, he is one of the smartest people in the world. His comments are so insightful.

If we can really reform English like this and make it simpler, we will indeed need to remember a lot fewer words!

Not to mention anything else, just in weeks and months, you can remember more than ten fewer words! And you can still understand them easily!
How come no one had thought of such a simple truth before?

All I can say is that if Qiao Yu hadn't become too famous recently, and if China hadn't developed too rapidly in recent decades, these words would definitely not have had such a profound impact on these foreigners.

But these premises happened to be true, and Qiao Yu had just demonstrated to these foreigners what a technological dimensionality reduction attack was. In this case, these foreigners really couldn't help but believe it.

"That makes perfect sense! I only thought those people were using fake information to deceive us! But I didn't expect those people to be so bad and to make things difficult for us since they created the language!"

"I am a person with dyslexia. I find it very difficult to read anything with more than a thousand characters. At the same time, almost none of my friends in China have this problem.

I always thought it was my fault, but today I finally realized that it wasn’t all my fault. This damn language has been bothering me for so long! Maybe I should start learning Chinese from today! "

"WTF! This is so fucking true, this damn English. I often get laughed at for misspelling a word, but in reality 80% of words are meaningless! There are obviously more concise expressions!"

……

Qiao Yu discovered that what he had casually said about many adults in the West still having dyslexia was true.

Because the barrage area really exploded!
Too many people felt the same way. But he was just talking nonsense.

When he was learning English, he knew that the names of the days of the week in English are actually an extension of culture. For example, Monday represents the moon, Tuesday represents Mars, and Wednesday comes from Odin, the main god in Norse mythology...

But this does not mean that he cannot deny this naming method. After all, science is defined by people.

Qiao Yu felt that at this moment he represented science.

Such a huge amount of feedback also made Qiao Yu feel more excited. He was about to continue brainwashing these people when he suddenly saw his dear Uncle Zheng walk into the office again and was desperately making pause gestures to him.

So Qiao Yu also made a gesture to the director. A few seconds later, the camera in the live broadcast room also switched to the engineer who was busy with various operations.

Qiao Yu also took the time to look at Zheng Xiwen and asked, "What's wrong? Uncle Zheng."

"People from the three major exchanges across the street made an emergency call to negotiate, hoping that the live broadcast test can be stopped." Zheng Xiwen said concisely.

After hearing this, Qiao Yu asked in surprise: "No way, Uncle Zheng, are those people too immersed in the play? They don't really think that we are invited to this test, right?

They have the final say on when the live broadcast will stop? Are these people stupid? They want to arrange me for 3 million US dollars? Am I so cheap in the eyes of those Westerners? Do they have any misunderstanding of my character? "

Zheng Xiwen shook his head and said, "No, there is no misunderstanding. They said they are willing to pay the price. Especially Microsoft is willing to pay the price as long as you can stop the live broadcast."

Qiao Yu blinked, and then suddenly realized that Zheng Xiwen was actually quite humorous. But if you put it this way, it seems that there is indeed no misunderstanding.

Just be willing to pay the price! There is really nothing in this world that cannot be discussed.

"What price is Microsoft willing to pay?" Qiao Yu asked curiously.

"As long as you stop the live broadcast, time is tight, so we didn't discuss it in detail. I think I can agree to all the conditions you mentioned before, and I can give you an additional sum of money to support your research."

Zheng Xiwen answered concisely.

After hearing this, Qiao Yu got a little angry and shouted directly: "Does Microsoft think I'm stupid? The conditions were like this before I stayed up all night last night, and they are still like this after I stayed up all night. Then didn't I stay up all night yesterday for nothing?"

Zheng Xiwen said helplessly: "I told you that there is also a compensation to support your research."

The reason why he was so serious in helping to mediate was actually because he was also afraid that Qiao Yu would go too far.

As we all know, the most deterrent effect of a cannonball is when it is in the barrel. This cannonball is very precious, and there are many cards left for it to be used. It must not be fired so casually.

Yes, seeing so many netizens making a fuss, the officials almost got angry.

"How much compensation?" Qiao Yu asked.

"We can talk about this after the live broadcast stops." Zheng Xiwen explained.

"No, let's talk about it after the live broadcast. What if they just give me one or two million and send me off?"

Qiao Yu asked back.

"Then let's do a second live broadcast. I think the Character Jump team won't mind making a few more trips."

Zheng Xiwen said quickly.

He was not helping Microsoft, but persuading Qiao Yu based on the above idea.

Qiao Yu nodded and agreed, "It seems to make some sense."

"Then let's do this! I'll give you, Uncle Zheng, a little favor and stop the live broadcast today! Anyway, you've covered most of the popular science. Don't worry, the whole world will stand by you and help you negotiate!"

Zheng Xiwen decided to cut the Gordian knot and end the live broadcast as soon as possible so that everyone could feel at ease first.

Otherwise, this live broadcast would really become a time bomb, and countless bigwigs would not even be able to have a good lunch.

If the big guys can’t eat well, Qiao Yu can definitely still eat well, but he definitely can’t eat well.

"Well... I will definitely give you face, Uncle Zheng, but let me make it clear in advance that if Microsoft's compensation is not satisfactory, then the next live broadcast will be scheduled for tomorrow?"

(End of this chapter)