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Chapter 81: Sentence Breaking

"Oh?" Kitahara walked in the court and said, "It seems that Professor Utsunomiya believes that there cannot be diversified forms of ancient Chinese prose proofreading."

"Of course." Utsunomiya sneered, and then he looked at the audience in the court, "It's like there is only one railway connecting two cities. So no matter how you walk, you must pass by this railway. Therefore, you

It must have the same movement path as others."

"Can we conclude that you are a stalker just because you have the same movement trajectory as others? This is obviously not correct. You have the same movement trajectory as others, not because you want to stalk others, but because these two

There is only one railway between the cities!"

Utsunomiya raised his voice and took a few more steps forward, his brows trembling as if he was trying to force the plaintiff's lawyer into a desperate situation with no way out.

Seeing that the famous law professor seemed to be showing his teeth and claws, Kitahara smiled again.

In this smile, it seems that a hundred thousand troops are ambushing.

It was as if there was a pipa sound for an instant.

First, there were a few subtle sounds of the piano. Just when it gave people a sense of relaxation, suddenly, the strings burst, and the sound became shrill and sharp.

The flashes of swords and swords kept rising.

Countless soldiers held up sharp scimitars and rushed out from the depths of the dense forest where they had been dormant for a long time, charging towards the enemy in front of them.

Beihara pressed the remote control again, the whiteboard on the screen flashed again, and two sentences of ancient Chinese without punctuation appeared in front of everyone's eyes.

Seeing this young man like this, Utsunomiya was a little stunned. What is he going to do? Does he want to advocate that there are many possibilities for segmenting sentences in ancient books? Impossible, this is absolutely impossible. How to segment a sentence, it must be

There is only one form, there cannot be a second form!

Beihara held the remote control in his hand as if he were holding a butcher's knife, and said with a cautious smile, "Just now, the defendant's attorney said that punctuation in ancient books only has a limited form, which will inevitably lead to duplication.

This understanding fully demonstrates that the defendant is completely ignorant of the work of collating ancient books!"

The word "ignorance" echoed harshly in the courtroom.

The listeners in the gallery did not expect that the plaintiff's lawyer would use this word, and they were stunned. A young lawyer who had just graduated actually used "ignorance" to describe the famous legal authority in front of him. He dared to use "ignorance" to describe it.

The word "ignorance" is used to scold a famous and knowledgeable professor.

This scene may be too ridiculous, but it reveals a certain irony. Some student union representatives who sympathized with Shimokawa couldn't help but burst out laughing.

"Plaintiff's attorney, the court has warned you not to use such cathartic words again!" Judge Takanashi frowned slightly and raised his voice, "Now the court is giving you a formal warning. If you use similar words again, you will be punished.

Punishment will be carried out in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Civil Procedure Law!"

Beihara bowed slightly and said, "I'm sorry, Chief Judge. It's true that what the defendant did in this case is really too outrageous."

Invisibly, the corners of Beihara's lips curled up in a smile.

He did it on purpose.

After a long period of technical comparison and evidence presentation, he believed that the energy of the judges on the bench would also be exhausted at times. At this time, he deliberately said this to refresh the tired judges so that they could concentrate their attention.

Put it on yourself.

Beihara immediately turned around, looked at the whiteboard and said: "In fact, the original text of ancient books often has great changes in meaning due to differences in punctuation and sentence breaks. This is by no means as simple as the defendant's attorney just said."

"Here, the plaintiff's attorney specifically cited two examples to the court to illustrate."

The first unpunctuated ancient Chinese sentence on the projected whiteboard is:

[I made an agreement with my elders in the third chapter. Those who kill, kill or injure others, and steal to compensate for the crime, I will remove Qin Fa]

"This Chinese sentence is excerpted from "Historical Records"." Beiyuan said, "This Chinese sentence tells an allusion called 'Three Chapters of the Agreement'. That is, Liu Bang, the emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty, attacked Xianyang, the capital of the Qin Dynasty. Among them, the emperor of the Han Dynasty and the people of Xianyang agreed that only

Killing, wounding, and stealing are crimes, and the rest of the strict Qin laws are abolished."

"Among them, the first segmentation pattern for this sentence is: 'I made a three-chapter agreement with my father: those who kill will die, and those who hurt others and steal will be punished. I will remove Qin's law'."

"That is, in the first sentence segmentation mode, the Chinese text means that the emperor of the Han Dynasty re-enacted the three laws and promulgated them, and abolished the Qin law."

Utsunomiya was already a little confused in front of the dock. He had heard of this allusion before. Some excerpts from historical records were also materials for Kanji training at Toyo High School. Isn't this how the sentence is broken? How else could it be done?

Break?!

Beiyuan paused for a moment, and then continued, "The second segmentation pattern of this sentence is: 'I made a pact with my father, and the three chapters of the law are: those who kill will die, and those who hurt others and steal will not be punished. I will eliminate Qin's law.'"

"In the second sentence segmentation mode, the meaning of the Chinese text has changed significantly. That is, the emperor of the Han Dynasty no longer abolished the Qin law and enacted three additional laws. Instead, the emperor of the Han Dynasty selected three laws from the Qin law.

Delete the rest of the law."

"That is, in the first type of sentence fragmentation, Liu Bang re-enacted the law. In the second type of sentence fragmentation, Liu Bang filtered out three laws from the Qin law. Here, the meaning of the Chinese sentence has undergone a change that cannot be ignored. Only

The difference is just a comma, but it will lead to two different understandings."

"It can be seen from this example that the punctuation marks in ancient books will give us different understandings of the specific process of historical events. This different understanding is by no means the limited forms of punctuation just mentioned by the defendant's attorney.

, in fact it will include the reviewer’s cognitive perspective on relevant historical facts, rather than a simple sentence fragment!”

Kitahara's first example instantly caused a strong impact in the courtroom. Many listeners in the auditorium had their mouths slightly opened, as if they did not expect that they could still have such an understanding. And the three people in the trial seat had their mouths slightly opened.

The two judges stared very carefully at the two methods of correcting and segmenting sentences displayed on the projection whiteboard.

The Three-Chapter Pact is a historical allusion that is familiar to everyone in the East.

Precisely because everyone is familiar with it, I was greatly surprised when I read the second unusual opinion.

This young man used such an example to tell every audience in the court what the major of literature and history is. Even the drop of a comma can cause great controversy.

Utsunomiya looked at the example on the whiteboard in front of him and froze completely. Why did Kitahara know so much? In such a short period of time, he not only had to be familiar with the relevant regulations of the copyright law, but also had to thoroughly understand it.

In the specialized field of ancient book collation, let’s find out what literary and historical collation is all about.

How on earth did he do it?

How is it possible to understand so much complex knowledge in such a short period of time?!

In an instant, an idea popped into Utsunomiya's mind——
Chapter completed!
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