From: fedora-list-bounces(a)redhat.com [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@redhat.com]
On Behalf Of Gene Heskett
I lived there for my first 25 years, and never met anyone except an
old
recent
emmigrant german farmer that signed his checks with an x mark but
wrote the
check
in german. The checks were always good, but his speech was littered
with
germanisms... He died before I got wanderlust. And we were pretty good at
statistics thank you.
So you define illiterate as whether someone can sign their name or not.
Some define it as not able to read a help-wanted ad in a newspaper or
a news article and tell you what it said. Some would say it is a working
vocabulary of less than 3 or 4 thousand words. Others would say it means
that one can't spell 'emigrant' or can't figure out how to use a spell
checker ;-)
Hey isn't this what started this thread? ;-)