The world is changing so fast that some people are keeping up with it, and some people are not; There are also two kinds of people who don't keep up, some are still trying, and some are not trying to work hard and want everything to go back to the same way.

This, naturally, is not allowed, this kind of person, the most academic, this time it is Xiangjiang University that has made waves, Yang Yi visited this city in person, she wants to see what ghosts are there in this young city?

In the auditorium of Xiangjiang University, which can accommodate 10,000 people, the "New Century University Exchange Summit" is being held, and this time it is the turn of Xiangjiang University to host, although this summit is aimed at universities around the world, but it is mainly for universities in Chinese-speaking areas, and the C9 universities in China and the two famous universities in Chen Guo are generally held in turn by these 11 universities, aiming at the discussion and exchange of academic circles.

Ten years ago, Dongying University joined as the twelfth host university, Moscow State University joined as the thirteenth host university, and subsequently, several universities at home and abroad have met the requirements, and Star University, which has been open for one year, is likely to become the host in two years because of its reputation and other reasons, and this time Yang Yi was invited to speak.

According to Yang Yi's status, if she didn't still hold the position of president of Star University, this kind of thing would not be in trouble for her, but this time she can't retreat, this is a display of Star University in front of global universities.

Most of the speakers at today's university exchange meeting are experts and scholars in the field of high and new technology, and most of the audience at this time are students from Xiangjiang University, but there are also students and teachers from other schools who came to listen to the exchange meeting, and some entrepreneurs who are auditing.

Yang Yi didn't come early or late, she didn't come to the drinking party in advance, and she didn't need this, so about an hour before the exchange meeting started, her special plane stopped in Xiangjiang.

This time, as soon as Yang Yi participated, she felt that the atmosphere was very wrong, and then confirmed her prediction.

The first speaker spoke in English throughout.

The second speaker spoke English throughout.

The third speaker also spoke in English.

The fourth speaker took the floor,......

The fifth speaker took the floor,......

……

Because the standard of this summit is very high, the academic content of the exchange is basically very high-end, especially the elaboration of the high-tech industry, which is basically full.

The audience included university teachers, students, entrepreneurs, entrepreneurs, and people from all over the country who paid attention to the "summit" and hoped to draw nutrients and inspiration from the "exchange meeting" and strengthen their entrepreneurial confidence.

As a result, throughout the morning, a total of seven scholars who spoke were actually speaking in Britain throughout the whole morning, and these scholars who spoke were not of Chinese descent of X origin, but all of them were born and raised in China.

The venue for the meeting is at the University of Hong Kong, not Harvard University in the United States and Oxford University in the United Kingdom.

Among the people sitting in the audience, there are no more than a few foreigners who speak English as their mother tongue, and out of 10,000 people, there are at most 110 foreigners, including foreigners who are native speakers such as Japanese and Arabic.

The theme of this "exchange meeting" is "mobile Internet", which is not a topic that cannot be expressed in Chinese, because the mobile Internet is now the most developed in Chinese-speaking areas, so contemporary Chinese is enough to express most scientific concepts and scientific research content.

It's very confusing, why do we have to use English? The speakers were native Chinese, and most of the audience in the venue were native speakers, so I couldn't think of any reason why I had to speak in English.

The unnecessary use of English made many people in the audience, including some entrepreneurs and start-ups, mostly not understand what they were saying.

An academic conference with a rare opportunity to popularize cutting-edge concepts to domestic students, and a conference on the construction of the most popular disciplines in major universities, turned into an English speaking show of "chickens and ducks".

The threshold of English vividly blocks the audience from the exchange of ideas with enthusiasm and expectation.

Because it is an "international summit", considering etiquette and national image, everyone did not leave the table, and at the end of the previous speaker's speech, the moderator came to the stage to announce that the next step was to enter the "exchange and comment" session.

And this commentator is naturally recognized by everyone as an academic boss, among the bigwigs present, the biggest is naturally Yang Yi, all in all, Yang Yi is a recognized IT field boss in the industry and the media, with a high status in the rivers and lakes, and his words have weight, whether these people's speeches just now are valuable, and Yang Yi's comments and affirmations are very important.

It's already Yang Yi's limit to endure not taking the initiative to say it, and she can't do it by commenting on the microphone, besides, with Yang Yi's current status, say a few words in her heart and offend a few so-called scholars who use English as a show off capital, who cares.

Yang Yi can say some insincere things, but these people are not qualified.

So, facing the microphone handed over, Yang Yi said something that made the audience silent-

"I didn't understand what they were saying, so I won't comment."

As soon as these words came out, the crowded venue seemed to be swept by an invisible shock wave, and all the noise disappeared, and it was so quiet that it could be heard.

Countless people have the same thought in their hearts:

"I*! So faceless? ”

"I*! It's too a**! ”

“********？”

“……”

At this time on the stage, the gold medal host of Phoenix Satellite TV was short-circuited, and several plans to play a round flashed in her mind, but there was no suitable one, and she didn't even save the scene.

In the silence of the audience, Yang Yi stood up with a smile, turned back with the microphone in his hand and asked the audience behind him: "I will conduct a small investigation on the spot, please raise your hand if you understand all the content of their speeches." ”

This time, after waiting for a minute, only Liao Liao raised his hand in the audience.

How so?

In a top university like Xiangjiang University, there are not only undergraduates, graduate and doctoral students, but also many experts and scholars who are good at English.

However, Yang Yi asked, only these few people raised their hands, one of the reasons is that the oral pronunciation of some words of the previous speakers is not standard, which increases the difficulty of understanding the "listening test", and there are definitely not many people who really understand all of their speeches and fully understand them.

The second reason is that everyone understands that it is not interesting to raise their hands to show their English listening at this time, and it will only make the people around them who don't understand feel stupid, not to mention, who is asking the question, it is Yang Yi.

Yang Yi didn't give a little face, and after counting the number of people who understood the speech and raised their hands, Yang Yi asked again: "Those who don't understand, please raise your hand." ”

Just now, Yang Yi clicked on the people who raised their hands one by one, what does this mean, this meeting is broadcast live, whether these people are showing off, or you really understand, so don't give Yang Yi face, you can see in the future.

Therefore, after Yang Yi asked, the scene was spectacular, and the people on the scene raised their hands one after another, which made the few people who raised their hands just now very apprehensive at this time.

1,000 people - 5,000 people......

Everyone in the hall raised their hands, and even the foreign scholars obeyed at this time.

Realizing that a rare emergency had occurred, the reporters in the venue quickly pressed the shutter of the camera in their hands to capture the picture of so many people raising their hands at the scene.

Looking at the scene of raising his hand, Yang Yi said at this time: "I have read that it was written in a book that a hundred years ago, at that time, there were always some people who liked to sandwich some meaningless English words in the Mandarin, and his words did not have new meanings that were difficult to reach in Chinese, and needed to be spoken in English; Therefore, the English words embedded in his words are not as good as the gold teeth embedded in his mouth, because the gold teeth are not only decorative, but also usable, but only like the meat crumbs between the teeth, indicating that the food is well eaten, and it is useless at all. ”

After saying this, Yang Yi put down the microphone, sat back in the chair, and stopped talking, the whole audience knew the weight of Yang Yi's words, which was even more ruthless than scolding people in person.

The few people who had just spoken sat on their chairs, their faces red and white for a while, and they did not leave or stay, as if they were sitting on pins and needles.

Outside the venue, Yang Yi was naturally surrounded by reporters, in fact, no matter what happened, Yang Yi would have this kind of encounter, but the questions asked by these reporters were different; And Yang Yi's words and deeds at the venue today are very "controversial", so these reporters have more questions and are more resolute in containment, Yang Yi kept the guards away for the time being, and accepted the interview with a smile.

For reporters, Yang Yi still has the heart to support, in this world, people who dare to speak are needed, it doesn't matter if they are wrong, as long as the original intention is good.

A reporter named by Yang Yi was the first to ask a question: "Mr. Yang, do you really not understand the content of today's speech?" ”

Yang Yi naturally said bluntly at this time: "I really didn't understand. ”

The reporter then asked: "Mr. Yang, as far as I know, you often went abroad to attend some academic conferences before, and a report in our agency reported that you had certain foreign language achievements several years ago, in addition, as far as I know, your speeches at several high-end academic conferences are very wonderful, and your English speaking level is indeed very high. ”

"I don't need to discuss the issue of my foreign language proficiency today; Our starry sky is the world's first in translation technology; But today's question is not whether I understand or not, but what language should be used in this meeting! Alright, next. ”

Another reporter turned on the microphone at this time and asked at the right time: "Mr. Yang, are you a nationalist?" ”

Yang Yi replied with a smile: "I don't know how you came up with the word 'nationalism', what I can tell you is that I am against extremely narrow nationalism.

But I'm not against learning a foreign language, the question now is that it's understandable to use a foreign language when you want to communicate in a foreign country, but now in our own country, why can't you use your mother tongue generously? ”

After listening to Yang Yi's answer, the reporter who asked the question asked again: "Mr. Yang, don't you think it is personal freedom for scholars to speak in what language, what language to write articles, and what journals to submit their articles to?" ”

Freedom and democracy, this question is unsolvable, but Yang Yi did not avoid answering, and said directly: "It is indeed his freedom in what language a scholar uses to speak at the conference, and in order to learn advanced ideas from abroad and exchange the latest achievements with the world, scholars should also master foreign languages and use foreign languages well." Yang Yi's words changed:

However, in terms of using the mother tongue to promote the understanding of science by the public in their own country and promoting the benign interaction between the development of science and social development in their own country, scholars should assume certain social responsibilities, which is an obligation.

As for the mobile Internet, where is the best and most advanced construction at present, I believe that this is a public opinion, some people will say, this is a kind of friendly behavior to foreign friends, I don't think so.

The mother tongue is the carrier that maintains the way of thinking and behavior of a country and a nation, and the mother tongue is the blood that connects the present and the future of history. Therefore, it is the common responsibility of the whole society to defend the mother tongue and purify Chinese.

If we don't value or care for our mother tongue and think that our mother tongue is inferior, how can we expect outsiders to respect and yearn for our culture? In the field of science and academic education, the Chinese language has long been excluded and neglected, and science is the core of a nation standing in the future world.

Why do I want to make translation software, and I want to do it so well, is to let all the peoples of the world maintain their own language and communicate without hindrance, which is the core of a civilization. ”

In the end, Yang Yi concluded: "Our Sun is just an insignificant low-mass yellow dwarf among the hundreds of billions of stars in the Milky Way, but it occupies 99% of the mass of our solar system, and in the Oort Nebula solar system, our earth is like an island in the ocean, insignificant, and in the range of 200,000 light-years of the Milky Way, our solar system is only on the inner edge of the Orion arm, in the slums of the Milky Way."

Our Milky Way is also large within three million light-years of this galaxy group, but it is also the same as dozens of dwarf galaxies in the Andromeda system, even if our galaxy merges with Andromeda in hundreds of millions of years, but in this galaxy cluster, the local galaxy group where the Milky Way is located is also very small, and it is gradually moving away from the local galaxy cluster, but fortunately, our local galaxy cluster is the center of the larger first-class Virgo supercluster, and the supercluster is only part of the nearly 500 million light-year feather structure of the Laniakea supercluster.

However, there is also a supercluster complex of Pisces Qiongyu, which is twice as large as him, a billion light-years of cosmic structure; However, it is only a part of the Great Wall of the Universe of the Great Wall of the Northern Corona of Wuxian 10 billion light years, and the Great Wall of the Great Wall of the Northern Corona of the Wuxian is only a part of the large-scale fiber structure of the observable universe, and the size of the observable universe is 93 billion light years, this is only because the universe is expanding at the speed of light, and the light emitted by many galaxies will never reach us, that is to say, how big the unobservable universe is, we don't know, but what we can know is much higher than the scope of our observable universe.

Against such a vast background, what is immortal? A short life? Or civilization? Or is it ridiculously free? ”