Chapter 2006： Accent is important

Cape Town is "Capetown" in English, which means "Cape Town". This is in line with the geographic location of Cape Town, because it is located right on the cape of Cape of Good Hope. When it was first established, it was just a small town built on a headland, and the name was very consistent with its characteristics.

In addition, Marin is too lazy to think of another name. I think this classic name is very suitable for the scene. I just used the original name.

Also, it is even more low-key to give this important place a name like "Cape Town". In fact, it is more appropriate to build a town in a strategic location called the Cape of Good Hope. However, that is too high-profile, easy to be valued and recovered by the Portuguese. Therefore, it is easier for the Portuguese to ignore the name "Cape Town".

Anyway, the Portuguese have a very shallow eyelids. Generally speaking, the Portuguese colonists who lived along the coast of Africa only favored areas that produced sands and ivory. Or, like to deal with some violent black natives and buy black slaves from them. However, the purchase of black slaves is generally accompanied by the trade of Sands and Ivory as a purchase, so the Portuguese only set their sights on the coast of West Africa. Because there are not only gold sand and ivory resources, but also black slaves.

In the area of ​​Cape of Good Hope in South Africa, because they cannot switch to Golden Sands, the fighting strength of the local black indigenous people is also very poor, and the Portuguese have little interest. Because, even with ivory and rhino horns, the Portuguese colonists did not like to go out and hunt in person, but like to deal with powerful black tribes, and exchange valuable glass products with local black natives.

At this time, the San and Koi people in the southwestern coast of South Africa were not very effective, and they were not as capable of hunting ivory and rhino horns as the blacks of West Africa. After all, black people in West Africa have entered the era of slavery, and civilizations such as the Mali Empire and the Songhai Empire have emerged. The degree of civilization is higher than that of the San and Koi people, and they have more trade and utilization value.

Therefore, the Portuguese did not place such an important place as the Cape of Good Hope, no strongholds or fortresses were established here. Then, until the rise of the Dutch, the town was not established here in 1652 in the 17th century, which was later Cape Town. In the hundreds of years before this, the Portuguese did not even think of establishing a town in the important place of the Cape of Good Hope ...

Of course, this is not to say that the Portuguese completely ignored this place before. In fact, the Portuguese also lived on the South African coast. As reported by Marin's ships, Portuguese merchant ships have already been active in the Cape of Good Hope area. However, they are not permanently stationed here, but are temporarily docked. Then, he landed and traded with the local San and Coy people, panning for ivory and rhino horn and other properties. After the exchange, they immediately left without the idea of ​​establishing a stronghold again.

It is no wonder that ivory and rhino horns produced near the Cape of Good Hope can be exchanged on most of the African coast, while the West African coast is closer to the Portuguese mainland and can also be changed to the Golden Sands, which is more cost-effective than the South African coast. Therefore, the short-sighted Portuguese did not establish a permanent base here until the Dutch established Cape Town here ...

In fact, the Dutch originally established Cape Town at the Cape of Good Hope, not for trade, but only for the establishment of a transit supply station. At the same time, it also shoulders the task of intercepting the merchant ships of hostile countries.

After all, before the opening of the Suez Canal, the Cape of Good Hope was the only passage for European merchant ships to Southeast Asia. As long as the Dutch deploy warships here, they can intercept and loot the merchant ships of the hostile country. Even, the original Cape Town colonial chiefs were not called Governors, but commanders, and were not renamed Governors until 1672.

In fact, at the beginning, the Dutch did not find a profit point in the Cape Town colony, but only used Cape Town as a supply station. For this reason, the Dutch have established many farms here to produce fresh vegetables. Because, in the 17th century, Europeans also realized that eating more vegetables can reduce the chance of getting scurvy.

It was thanks to a few simple farms established in Cape Town that Dutch colonists took root in Cape Town and continued to expand their territory, eventually forming colonies rather than colonial strongholds.

Moreover, the early Dutch did not just emigrate to the Dutch to Cape Town, but immigrated a large number of poor German farmers and even French farmers. After all, the Dutch business atmosphere was strong at that time. The Dutch either engaged in maritime colonization or served nautical colonization. It ’s not a very profitable thing to farm, only German farmers and French farmers. Of course, there are also many poor people in the Netherlands who have been hired by the Dutch East India Company to come to Cape Town to discuss life and run farms. Therefore, the white blood of South Africans in later generations is very mixed, not just Dutch descendants, but also many German and French. Because the population is mixed, the local Dutch accent is distorted. Then, the Afrikaans of the Boers became less and less like Dutch and became a new language. This also led to the fact that when black people turned over and bullied the Boers, they would not choose to immigrate to the Netherlands. Because, they speak Afrikaans, no longer Dutch.

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These original historical events have given Marin enough lessons. Therefore, Marin attaches great importance to colonial education. Not only pay attention to text education, but also attach great importance to the education of accent, specially made the standard phonetic symbol, not allowed to read wrong.

Never underestimate the influence of accents on politics. Even if they speak the same language in the same language, if there are differences in accents, there will be gaps.

Just like the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty, there was an obvious local faction dispute. For example, Qi Party, Chu Party or something. The biggest faction is the confrontation between officials in the south and officials in the north.

As for why this is so? As soon as they spoke, the difference came out. Therefore, in many cases, fellow villagers have to hold groups to keep warm. Because others are out of tune with them.

However, this problem has obviously been solved to a great extent in China in the 21st century. Especially since the post-80s, everyone has spoken in Putonghua. People from all over the world can hardly hear the difference in pronunciation, and regional discrimination has gradually decreased. After 90s and 00s, the children in the school all only speak Mandarin, and there is no more accent difference than the previous generation.

An obvious phenomenon is that after the 1980s, the 70s and 60s, because Mandarin is generally not good, there are still a lot of people in the same country. But since the 1980s, because everyone speaks fluent Mandarin, the geographical differences have become smaller, and people's gaps are not as heavy as before.

Of course, the post-80s generation is a generation that has begun to vigorously promote Mandarin Chinese. Therefore, many post-80s born in rural areas do not speak Mandarin well. This is mainly due to the serious shortage of rural teachers in the 1980s and 1990s. At that time, there was a kind of people called "private teachers". Let us ignore the huge contributions these private teachers have made to China Education, but objectively speaking, the level of these private teachers is really not good. Many language teachers among rural private teachers do not speak Mandarin. The children they teach can't speak Mandarin easily. Later, the "small technical secondary school" teachers at that time trained a large number of professional teachers and spread them to the countryside, which gradually improved the situation. In the 21st century, the state has mandated that Mandarin must be used for classroom teaching ~ www.novelhall.com ~ Then, children after 00 and 10, usually speak Mandarin at home.

And speaking the same Mandarin, everyone will naturally ignore regional differences. People in different regions can also become good friends and no longer behave in the same country. Because everyone speaks Mandarin and there are no communication difficulties, so there is no need to hold a group with the fellow. Dialects are often used when calling family members.

Therefore, with the lessons of previous life, in order to strengthen the national identity of the people (including the colonial people) to the country, while eliminating regional differences, to avoid the appearance of the original "Boer" in history, Marin ordered- While building the Cape Town Castle, select missionaries, bring "standard" textbooks, and teach local children to learn "standard pronunciation" in German and English (Frisian). In the future, the pronunciation test of Standard German and Standard English will be implemented in the Cape Town colony. Those who fail the test will not be allowed to hold public office. In this way, it can also force the locals not to change their accents, and to avoid differences in culture, language and identity with the local people.

To this end, Marin wrote the sentence "Accent is important" on the paper afterwards and wrote it three times in a row, indicating the importance. Then, send someone to Caesar to let him understand and understand ...

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