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My hosts were always calm and kind in putting up with the odd foreigner who was bound to find larger signals gross and yet to miss nuances altogether, coming across as deaf, dumb, and functionally illiterate.
One of the less pleasant ways in which such rank can be pulled is to label the linguistically less secure “illiterate.”
(And with a quarter of high-school seniors being rated functionally illiterate on standard reading tests, it seems pretty clear that some additional stimulation is needed.)
Mothers who failed to read a sentence out loud in Spanish (from daily life) were classified as illiterate (25/493).
I was on a recent talk show, where the host referred to speakers of Black English as illiterate thugs.