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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[–] 4 points 3 years ago* (5 children)

That's enraging because there is a reason we have a phonetic alphabet and not cuneiform.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    Cuneiform was also at least partially phonetic.

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

    Woah. Thats really cool and I always assumed they were just hieroglyphs but older. Is there anything else u know about them? You sound really cute and knowledgable UwU

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

    Haha. I'm not hugely knowledgeable about cuneiform, I'm not an archaeologist or anything. Actually, I only know that because I have a friend who is learning to write it because he's a fun weird guy.

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