foolproof[ˈfuːlpruːf]:adj.使用简便的,完全可靠的
7 C, X, and Q will not be part of the alphabet.
C、X和Q从字母表删除
When you're curious about the future of language, you probably should ask someone other than an engineer about it. And yet, that's what Ladies' Home Journal did in 1900, asking John Elfreth Watkins Jr., the curator of mechanical technology at the Smithsonian Institution, for his educated guesses about the 21st century.
当你对语言的未来感到好奇时,你可能应该问问别人,而不是工程师。然而,《女性家庭杂志》在1900年就这么做了。杂志邀请了史密森尼学会机械技术策展人小约翰·埃尔弗里斯·沃特金斯,请他对21世纪做出有根据的猜测。
The man of science had no love for what he considered extraneous letters, and he boldly predicted that by the 2000s, "there will be no C, X, or Q in our everyday alphabet. They will be abandoned because unnecessary." Instead, Watkins wrote, we'd be spelling mostly by sound and would only communicate with "condensed words expressing condensed ideas." So, in 2020, we may say to our friends, "Me happy good, hi!"
这位科学家对他所认为的外来字母毫无兴趣,他大胆地预测,到本世纪头十年,“我们日常使用的字母表中将不再有C、X或Q。它们会因为没有必要而被抛弃。”相反,沃特金斯写道,我们将主要通过声音拼写,只会用“表达扼要思想的缩合词汇”交流。所以,在2020年,我们可能会对朋友说,“我高兴,好,嗨!”
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