Professor's Letter to Volunteers

Shaniya 2022-04-20 09:02:10

Chinese Version
English original version (try to compare, but some of the prefixes are really not clear)

Calling upon English speakers and readers in Britain, America, and the colonies, for a valuable new dictionary of the English language, go to Boguanyue to find chapters and phrases. We live today and know the origin of our earth, humans and all animals, we know how hot boiling water is and how long a yard is, our captains know how to measure precisely, latitude and longitude, yet we have neither charts nor Compass, guiding us through the vast ocean of words, it is time to give our great language the same dignity and respect as other scientific standards. Send your words to Oxford and let's all speak our minds in this great endeavor, through our astonishing maze of information networks, it will be a long process, but we can bear the high language, with you, our Volunteers, like rungs on a ladder, we can lift English up to the gates of heaven. In order to mark each word vividly, we must record from his birth, from the time he was first written, and since then, the words have gone through the ages, zigzagging, detouring, and their meanings have gone through The vicissitudes of life, like fish, keep adding and subtracting subtle differences to themselves, but in the vast English literature, they leave ruts and horses, and we will chase after these words and break them one by one. Strive to trace the origin, for this reason, we will dig our teeth and read all the books.

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Extended Reading
  • Camryn 2022-03-25 09:01:15

    The sympathetic genius friendship in the process of compiling the Oxford Dictionary, the story is not smooth enough.

  • Jovanny 2022-03-20 09:02:22

    The tears are very personal, and after such private tears are precisely hit every minute of the movie, apart from being unable to make a rational judgment on the quality of the movie anymore, I cry so much in the theater that I don’t want the image... Miner tried to teach Eli Na was literate, and when she said "That's freedom!", I started crying... For me, who was lonely and clumsy in childhood, who was digested by reading, and who was inseparable from writing work as an adult, all works on language and writing All touched me. They have nothing to do with earning a living or fame. The so-called shifting class is my salvation, and I entrust them to the entrance of heaven.

The Professor and the Madman quotes

  • Dr. William Chester Minor: It's freedom, Mrs. Merrett. I can fly out of this place on the backs of books. I've gone to the end of the world on the wings of words... . When I read, no one is after me. When I read, I am the one who is chasing--chasing after God.

  • Dr. William Chester Minor: Have you gotten to the "I's" by now? I had some to add to your words. But I can't seem to... I can't seem to find my pens.