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One of the less pleasant ways in which such rank can be pulled is to label the linguistically less secure “illiterate.”
To more vividly convey that coloring, many newspapers encourage their reporters to wield the tools of the novelist, opening a story with an evocative detail, such as these leads, both from the front of today's New York Times : "Ana Estela Lopeze dreamed of saving enough money to return to El Salvador to open a clothing store and build a three-bedroom house"; and "Rani, an illiterate woman from the washermen's caste, changed into her prettiest sari one recent morning."
Mothers who failed to read a sentence out loud in Spanish (from daily life) were classified as illiterate.
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.
Bumpersticker seen the other day: Illiterate?