• Voyajer@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Functional illiteracy, they can read the words but not necessarily understand the full meaning of the paragraph. I do know one lady who is totally illiterate and has her grandkids read her mail to her, but she’s ~90 and at least knows arithmetic.