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[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Functional illiteracy is a different measure than illiteracy. You are talking about functional illiteracy, and proved such with your examples.

It's a fairly important distinction tbh.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Isn't part of the US illiterate population perfectly literate in a language other than English?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Isn't part of the US illiterate population perfectly literate in a language other than English?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

No, unless it specifies that they're illiterate in English. Otherwise, everyone is illiterate since they can't read every single language on Earth.