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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

This doesn't seem to hold true for native English speakers. The number of old white North Americans on Facebook who haven't figured out punctuation, capitalization, or things like their/there/they're is astounding.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Rest assured it's not just US problem. The same happens in other languages too and it may be even worse there.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

As many as 16% of US adults may be considered functionality illiterate in English. A further 26% have serious difficulty gaining understanding from what they read in English. From a department of education study.

Essentially a third of the country can't read much beyond the cat in the hat, if even that.