Language and Writing Standards

In the proposal, many linguists believed that this was necessary because in the interstellar age, people may hibernate for hundreds of years. If this phenomenon that disrupts the language and writing system is not stopped, they may not be able to understand what others are saying when they wake up from hibernation.

Standardizing the use of language and writing can prevent some foreseeable events from happening, such as people several generations later becoming unable to understand the language and writing system because of its pollution and destruction.

The removal of Censored words is actually a measure taken to better implement the content of the "Draft Suggestions on Standardizing Language and Writing".

The reasons given are quite reasonable. If the Censored words are not removed, people's needs for characters will inevitably not be met. In this situation, people will spontaneously create many substitute characters, phonetic loan characters, variant characters, and even phonetic symbols.

In this way, the "Draft Suggestions on Standardizing Language and Writing" cannot play its true role. After all, if you stipulate the standardization of writing, but do not allow people to use so many characters, isn't that a contradiction?

Words are born from real objects. As long as something exists in real life, there will definitely be a corresponding written expression for it. If you block a word, people will definitely use another word to express it, unless the thing is permanently erased from the real world.

But that's impossible. For example, you can't erase your reproductive organs, can you?

Yue Yuan saw that in this proposal, linguists also criticized the harmfulness of this phenomenon in the human society on the Hope. They said, "If this is banned and that is banned, in the long run, the society on the Hope might develop into something like what happened in the United States more than a thousand years ago, with more than a dozen genders."

If left unchecked, the word 'flower' might not be allowed to appear on the Hope a thousand years from now, because a flower is essentially the reproductive organ of a plant.

"Is that what you all think?" Yue Yuan looked up at Lu Xiaofen and the others, taking his gaze away from the tablet in his hand.

"Yes, Chief of Staff," Lu Xiaofen nodded and said in her clear voice, "Over the past period of time, we have also conducted some questionnaire surveys among the people of Hope. People are generally very averse to the Censored words, especially after the release of the document 'On the Impact of Population Planning on the Social Moral System and the Moral Guiding Indicators That May Interfere.'"

"I remember that in a questionnaire survey, a respondent shared his own experience with us. He said that when he contacted a favorite person for a date, the keywords were blocked into a bunch of *** mouth mouth mouth *** and the like, and the voice keywords were also silenced by the system, causing the person to misunderstand his meaning. But according to him, the spoken and typed messages he said at that time were actually the contents of "The Su Nv Jing" played on TV."

Has it gotten that serious?

Hearing Lu Xiaofen say this, Yue Yuan couldn't help but fall into deep thought.

In fact, Yue Yuan was aware of this situation. After all, many of the systems or regulations on the Hope were inherited from the previous Callisto Base. System blocking was a legacy of history, not a new rule after the disaster.

Yue Yuan initially thought these were trivial matters, and since he had been focusing on technological issues lately, he had neglected many humanities matters. He never expected things to have developed to this extent.

After this incident, Yue Yuan finally understood that among the levels of civilization mentioned by the Mining Area Patrol, a certain technology could be regarded as a symbol of a certain level of civilization, but a civilization is not just about technology.

In addition to the inherent human elements of civilization, such as language, culture, and customs, everything that is manifested by the entire human collective can be called Human Civilization.

Managing a civilization cannot rely solely on technology.

Because other internal factors also affect the overall trajectory of humanity, if those elements go wrong, problems will arise within the civilization, thus affecting its progress.

Thinking of this, Yue Yuan said sincerely, "We did a good job, but this proposal needs to be put to a vote at the conference. You'd better prepare for it so you don't get stuck during the Q&A session."

He is indeed a dictator, but there is no need for him to make decisions unilaterally in this matter. After all, although this matter is important, it is neither military nor has it reached a point where an immediate decision must be made.

Dictatorship does not mean making decisions unilaterally in everything. Appropriately delegating some power allows other departments and individuals to be more effectively bound to the New Government's cause, thus ensuring the New Government's increasingly stable rule.

Therefore, although Yue Yuan strongly supported the proposal, he still wanted to put it to a vote at the conference.

"Don't worry, Chief of Staff, we understand," Lu Xiaofen said happily. She had come to find Yue Yuan not so that the proposal could be passed immediately, but to speed up the process of getting the proposal to the plenary session for a vote.

Now that her goal has been achieved, she is naturally very happy.

The reason Lu Xiaofen wanted to expedite this proposal was that she felt humanity was still in the post-disaster reconstruction phase, essentially a restart of civilization.

At this stage, Human Civilization is highly malleable, and some historical problems that have become too big to be solved can be corrected or started over.

Of course, as a proposal jointly put forward by many linguists, it is not just about Censored words.

The proposal also includes many policies and regulations for the protection of Chinese characters.

Just like language and writing policies, the previous reforms faced significant resistance due to the numerous and complex issues involved, and the fact that "a large forest contains all sorts of birds."

Some of these obstacles are still difficult to overcome in the past.

For example, language policy refers to a country's use of legislation or regulation to encourage or prohibit the use of a particular language or languages. Language planning, on the other hand, is the purposeful, planned, and organized intervention and management of language and its use by governments or social groups to address the issues of language use in social communication, so that language can better serve society.

Language policies and plans have two focuses: leniency and strictness. Different focuses will have different effects on society.

A lenient language policy is conducive to protecting linguistic diversity, while a strict policy may endanger the survival environment of minority languages.

In the past, there were many people and ethnic groups, and the environment was complex, so even if we wanted to make changes, it was impossible to cover everything. You can imagine how difficult it was to make changes in this area in the past.

But things are different now. There are so few people left in the world, and almost all of them are Chinese. The social atmosphere also needs it, so it's the perfect time to promote this kind of reform.