• abbotsbury@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Most likely functionally illiterate and not 100% “I can’t read,” but I’ve overestimated instagrammers before

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      1 month ago

      Most people are illiterate. Literacy is a skill with levels and most people don’t actually ever reach the level required to be a fully functional person.

      This meme is a great example. Most people don’t actually reach Ogre’s level of literacy. Yeah, it’s played for laughs in the fact that Ogre is smarter than the average human, but Ogre is also completely correct about the level of literacy we should expect of people, in a perfect world.

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        1 month ago

        No, most people are not illiterate, you’re confusing literacy with media literacy because that’s what you want to talk about instead.

        There is a difference between “I don’t know what that sign says” and “I don’t know what this book means.”