Heterogeneous Linguistics - Vol. 3 Ch. 23

[ilikepi31415]

So was the knowing water from last chapter not dead then? That big pit seemed to be a massive knowing water, but describing the combination of 2 knowing water's as MNH seems odd since they're literally mixing. Unless it's such a homogeneous mixture that people see it as one absorbing the other and MNH occuring.

 

[hollyguild]

A "win" is when we all come to an understanding :,)

 

[berryoragami]

That's such a fun and neat concept, but I know I'd be horribly confused during one of these games lol
Thanks so much for the chapter!

 

[Ranger747]

This series is gooooood.

 

[Beregorn]

@Liquidxlax good luck with that! The whole manga is about understanding languages you know nothing about.

Also, I feel that the goat may have the same goal of MC

 

[Liquidxlax]

@Beregorn look at you captain buzzkill

 

[Simkin]

Why did it take me so long to stumble onto this brilliant gem of a manga!? I've binge read the series in 2 hours, it's so good!
Every chapter makes you feel as confused as the MC, but you feel so proud when you figure stuff out alongside of him. Like finishing a puzzle together.
The worldbuilding is so intelligent and fun to read about. This manga has a similiar feeling to Dungeon Meshi, but is totally unique in its own way. I love it!

That said, I don't think Centaurus is long for this world.

 

[Chrona]

The game is about finding out what the individual can sense, and developing patterns for similarities. Our daughterfu can not tell certain colours apart, but can smell and group them up as such by that quality. It also denotes value systems as far as what one desires, such as the Kraken liking shiny objects, possibly other's playing the game are trying to develop patterns for those things. That's my guess.

@Liquidxlax
"All the North African guys I know speak English and 2 or more other languages, yet they have numerous species which have different ways of functioning which would make it harder. " It's because they have different species that it's harder to establish a unified language. The closest thing they have to a language that almost any monster can use is Harpy or Lamia probably. The lamias and harpies don't appear able to be able to hear inter-species so spoken language is out. Species without the ability to smell means werewolf and werecat are out. Until we meet a ghost, the only languages left are pure sign languages since the only unifying characteristics between monsters is they have a physical form.

It also doesn't help that there's obviously a complete lack of authority in the place. Culture and language will only remain stable if someone has enough power to establish rules and permanence for culture and practice to develop. You'll see this crop up on an intra-species basis, but given the physical limitations of each species, pidgin is all you're going to get until some Demon King goes full Shi Huang Di promotes a unified language for the area, and kills anyone who promotes other languages.

 

[spigot]

thank you, mangadex april fools ads

 

[JumboWheat01]

And caught up. Came in expecting cute, stayed because of amazing world building.

And also the cute.

 

[orp]

"Allow me to introduce myself, I'm Mr. Tasty."

 

[Luke_chase]

I’m starting to fear that horse san is gong to become food soon

 

[Gustbk]

Finally came back to this manga — really like the idea of the frog and rabbitmen species.
Here’s hoping the old horse is just asleep.

 

[Homicidal]

I need more.

 

[danvolodar]

@Scytale traveling, especially traveling by sea for trade, was pretty common even in the Antiquity, much less the Middle Ages. Greeks and before them Phoenicians traveled (and settled) across the Mediterranean and Black Seas, and Romans had an empire from Britain to Crimea and Arabia, and traded both with India and with China. So it's safe to assume there were multiple polyglots at the time - like, Cleopatra is said to have known nine languages. In the Middle Ages, much of Arabic learning came from developing on Greek philosophers, and they borrowed math developments from India (which the Europeans in turn borrowed from them).
Now, in the world like the one in the manga, with sentient species so different, yeah, they'd sooner develop some kind of basic sign language as lingua franca for everyone to understand and mimic at least in the basic concepts.

 

[Okama-Sanji]

Aahhaaah

- They communicating so well that they can play games?
- ? No one understands.
- What?

Sounds like your average game night