火星文时代——英文字母大改造

　　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。