From https://www.reddit.com/r/NoStupidQuestions/comments/14phpbq/how_is_it_possible_that_roughly_50_of_americans/

Question above is pretty blunt but was doing a study for a college course and came across that stat. How is that possible? My high school sucked but I was well equipped even with that sub standard level of education for college. Obviously income is a thing but to think 1 out of 5 American adults is categorized as illiterate is…astounding. Now poor media literacy I get, but not this. Edit: this was from a department of education report from 2022. Just incase people are curious where that comes from. It does also specify as literate in English so maybe not as grim as I thought.

  • TooSoon@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    I’m sorry I genuinely could not follow most of that word salad. Care to try again, preferably in English this time?

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      1 year ago

      Speak White, you say. Hmm… … bigot! That is why we will never cross the cultural divide between the two solitudes in canada if on either side we refuse to acknowledge our differences.

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        1 year ago

        Feel free to speak in whatever ethnicity you want so long as type out a full sentence with at least a hint of what your point is trying to be.

        The problem with your last comment isn’t slang words or grammar, it was a complete lack of logical flow and endless run-on sentences with no point to be found anywhere.

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          1 year ago

          I bet that the English cucumber in my French salad leaves you speechless. You’re killing me pointlessly with your words.

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            1 year ago

            Are you translating french idioms into english and expecting it to make sense?

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              No and it wouldn’t make any difference in any language anyhow. Even less in your neck of the woods.

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                1 year ago

                Wait are you actually saying what you’ve typed doesn’t make sense in any language? I’m so confused.

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                  1 year ago
                  • [ ] Not so fast. My colloquial digression from the subject of worldwide illiteracy followed your assumption that Québec educational policy was making anglophones illiterates which I do not agree with just so you could further your quite succinct crass political agenda to National governmental affairs in your next comment (Bill 96).
                  • [ ] You cannot read between the lines because your biased intercultural approach is monolithic and exclusive.
                  • [ ] I am exasperated by your sarcastic bullshit. So fuck off you bloody cunt!
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                    I swear to god I keep trying my damn hardest to understand the words that come out of your mouth but it just keeps sounding like you’re using a synonym generator like a 15 year old who just discovered the right click menu in microsoft word 2016 and thinks his homework sounds so sophisticated but it’s just a big ol’ word salad with absolutely no resemblance to a coherent point anywhere.