标题: 《Confluence 》作者： - Brian W. Aldiss【EPUB】 [打印本页] 作者: zaq 时间: 2013-4-3 19:10 标题: 《Confluence 》作者： - Brian W. Aldiss【EPUB】 CONFLUENCE By Brian Aldiss The inhabitants of the planet Myrin have much to endure from Earthmen, inevitably, perhaps, since they represent the only intelligent life we have so far found in the galaxy. The Tenth Research Fleet has already left for Myrin. Meanwhile, some of the fruits of earlier expeditions are ripening. As has already been established, the superior Myrinian culture, the so-called Confluence of Headwaters, is somewhere in the region of eleven million (Earth) years old, and its language, Confluence, has been established even longer. The etymological team of the Seventh Research Fleet was privileged to sit at the feet of two gentlemen of the Oeldrid Stance Academy. They found that Confluence is a language-cum-posture, and that meanings of words can be radically modified or altered entirely by the stance assumed by the speaker. There is, therefore, no possibility of ever compiling a one-to-one dictionary of English-Confluence, Confluence—English words. Nevertheless, the list of Confluent words which follows disregards