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.

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[–] 6 points 3 years ago (23 children)

As in they’re literate in English but the government decided to stop offering services in English thereby making citizens functionally illiterate?

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    i'm guessing peobably the opposite? they're literate in french but the national test is in english.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    No, nothing to do with language. Functional illiterate means you can read, you know how to read, but you don't really understand the meaning of what you are reading. Maybe Trump is a functional illiterate for instance :)

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (18 children)

    @toosoon You must be ill-informed, quite biased and in favour of Québec bashing. The government has English translations available for its minority in “La belle province”. Educate yourself. The information is out there.

    http://www.education.gouv.qc.ca/fileadmin/site_web/documents/publications/DepStatAlpha_eng.pdf

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (17 children)

    That’s all well and good, until you read about bill 96..

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (16 children)

    I’m a frog, kiss me. Bill 96 is excellent as tabled . I don’t need to wait. If you’re not happy with it, do like me and GTFO . You are ROC material to light up the culture war. Join them and you will feel more at home. You must be too illiterate to be able to read between the line or fucking blind.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (14 children)

    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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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (13 children)

    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 point 3 years ago (12 children)

    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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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (11 children)

    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 point 3 years ago (10 children)

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

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (9 children)

    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 point 3 years ago (8 children)

    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 point 3 years ago (7 children)
    • [ ] 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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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (6 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    Well The Fuck. Keep believing in your "fairy tales" and swear by it all of your devoted lifetime if you like... ...Not too soon enough your tower of babel is showing untold signs of weakness from your troubled mind through your poisonous twisted tongue. Irrationality is your forte I can see.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Okay I was actually able to follow that, you did a much better job of keeping one faint shred of coherent thought in there (barely).

    Unfortunately that thought was you either being a troll or a dumbass (my money’s on troll). Either way, I’m out chief, enjoy the rest of your day.

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  • [–] -1 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Yeah enjoy your monocultural illiteracy. Keep farming

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    I'm a frog, kiss me. Bill 96 is excellent as tabled . I don't need to wait. If you're not happy with it, do like me and GTFO. You are ROC material to light up the culture war. Join them and you will feel more at home. You must be too illiterate to be able to read between the line or fucking blind.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    The same applies in the ROC (Rest of canada) when dealing with their French minority. Latest example is in New-Brunswick where the premier faces an onslaught by eliminating the French as a second language programme.

    Alberta done that in the 1920’s without recriminations by closing down French only schools.

    Ontario is not better underfunding French services.

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