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"I"ve never reay pai much aenin wrd an ff like ha, ell y he rh. B hi i fn. I barey even fee ike I"m wriing."
汉字有改革，英语也会与时俱进哦。
Dynamic, sleek, and even sexy is how a panel of typographic and marketing experts described the 15 new replacement letters they unveiled in an effort to reinvigorate interest in the faltering English alphabet.
印刷和市场专家组为更新过时的英文字母表而设计出15个新型字母写法，并称自己的设计灵动优美，乃至性感。
"Forget everything you thought you knew about reading and writing," announced David Greenberg, 34, lead designer of the exciting ABC makeover. "These new letters are hip, fresh, and sure to forever change the way English speakers everywhere form their words."
字母大变装工程的首席设计师David Greenberg宣称：“抛弃你过去的读写习惯，这些新的字母更时髦，更新鲜，并将永远改变英语使用者构词造句的方式。”
According to Greenberg, the exciting new set of consonants and vowels will be rolled out over the next few months, and should find its way into most newspapers, magazines, and popular works of fiction by early spring.
据Greenberg所言，再过一个月，激动人心的新型辅音和元音字母表就要面世了，开春不久，这些字母就会出现在报纸、杂志以及畅销小说里面。
In addition to giving the alphabet a "much-needed face-lift," Greenberg and his team said they"d be drastically changing the order of most letters in an effort to better reflect modern tastes.
Greenberg和他的同事们将彻底改变大部分字母的构造，在给字母表改头换面的同时，更好的反应出现代人的品味。
The result of nearly a year of focus-group testing, the new letters are reportedly more than just an aesthetic update. Studies found that more than 87 percent of Americans rarely ever use the letter "X" in their daily lives, a discovery that led to a complete reworking of the neglected consonant that has transformed it from unpopular alphabet pariah to something "people will be dying to write down."
经过将近一年的团体讨论和测试，新字母据称具有超出审美效果的意义。研究表明，87%以上的美国人在他们的日常生活中几乎不会用到X这个字母。这被遗忘多时的“边缘字母”经过改造，将成为“人们极度渴望写下”的字母新宠。
Space Programs For The Poor
蜗居原来不是我们的专利，看看美国人为了拓展生存空间，想出了什么好方法。
So, the United States just sent another multimillion-dollar shuttle out into space to do God knows what. Yet all the while, back here on Earth, men and women are living so far below the poverty line that they can"t even obtain the most basic of necessities, let alone ride aboard the Atlantis out of our planet"s atmosphere.
It"s a travesty, really.
Every time NASA launches a shuttle, it"s $450 million right up God"s great blue chimney. Think of all the good that money could do if it were instead used to put disadvantaged inner- city youths into orbit. Or how many single mothers struggling to get by that money could strap into a large, spinning gyroscope that tests the effects of g-force on the human body. Or what a difference we could make for our countless homeless citizens, who more than anything else need a space station to call their own.
It boggles the mind to even contemplate it.
Do the math, sheeple! We cannot, as a country, justify sending our elite, middle-class, Cal Tech–educated astronauts into space while there are so many who spend each day wondering where their next hot meal will come from or where they"re going to sleep tonight or whether they"ll ever do a space walk without having to first stand in some humiliating, government-run unemployment line.
I spoke to an economically disadvantaged child the other day—we"ll call him Calvin—and he had never tasted a tube of dehydrated chicken. Not even once. I tried to explain to him what it was and that it had been to the moon, but his life is so different from mine or yours that he had no context in which he could understand what I was saying. That"s the point we"ve gotten to. That"s how bad it"s become. All I could do was look at him and shake my head and wonder how we can even call ourselves Americans anymore.
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Because we live in two Americas now: The America for those who are trained as pilots or engineers and eventually become astronauts who go on missions in space, and the America for the poor. The time to put our most vulnerable and our most needy in space is now. We can"t keep running from this problem, hoping it will go away. They have just as much of a right to live in dignity and urinate in a specially designed suit built to withstand incredible heat and cold while protecting the human body from violent and sudden changes in air pressure as anyone else.
In other words: a space program for the people who need a space program most.And for you hardcore businessmen and capitalists out there, there"s a practical application in this, too: Why pay highly trained astronauts to go to the International Space Station and test the effects of unfiltered ultraviolet radiation on bacteria when there are plenty of eager young teenagers who would jump at the chance to do the same thing at a cost that wouldn"t break the bank?I"m not talking about a handout, I"m talking about a hand up—up 20,000 miles into space, where our nation"s most desperate and destitute can gaze down on this big blue marble ball of clouds and dreams and be inspired to lift themselves out of poverty.
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