At noon on November 1, at the Director's Office of the Alien Zoo.
Weekly Meeting.
Durian Deputy Director was still away on a business trip to the moon, so only Zhao Yiyi, Ning Mo, and Zhang Zhilei attended the meeting. A boxed lunch sat in front of each of them.
The meetings weren't as relaxed as they used to be. In recent weeks, wild Red-haired Gorillas had been sent in one after another, leaving the zoo overcrowded with apes. Everyone was overwhelmed every day. There were piles of matters to discuss at each meeting, and they barely had time to eat.
"The first batch of five hundred Red-haired Gorillas transported here in the second half of the year has reached an average IQ of ninety-five. They just collectively passed the four arithmetic operations exam, but their language foundation is still lacking." Ning Mo read from his work log.
"There's one point we need to pay attention to: dialects! Several of the newly recruited keepers have very strong accents. The Red-haired Gorillas they teach end up speaking in nothing but dialect, which makes communication extremely difficult. I suggest transferring the keepers with the heaviest accents to street sweeping and replacing them with soldiers who speak standard Mandarin."
"Approved! Send me the list. I'll talk to them." Zhao Yiyi nodded. "I've noticed that too. A few Red-haired Gorillas have such heavy accents that, after listening for ages, I still can't understand what they're mumbling."
"There have been some problems with bilingual education." Zhang Zhilei read from her work log. "Some Red-haired Gorillas taught themselves to speak and write while mixing in English. They mainly do it to save effort."
"For example, when asking for an apple, some apes say they want an apple, which sounds very strange. A few even use abbreviations,