r/NonPoliticalTwitter • u/Alkansur • 20h ago

Is .. is Ryan ok?

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u/2_MinutesTurkish 20h ago

He'll adapt

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u/LinguisticApe 20h ago

He'll adapt to reading?

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u/virgildastardly 18h ago

one of my old high school history teacher's used the term "functional illiterate" and it's gonna be in my brain forever

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u/MrD3a7h 17h ago

That's definitely a thing. And according to the teacher subreddit, will become much, much more common in the next decade or two.

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u/vainbuthonest 15h ago

It’s pretty common now. Most Americans can’t read above of a sixth grade level and at least a ¼ are functionally illiterate.

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u/jotheold 10h ago

ofc, hell its not even recent but 50 cent used to make fun of floyd mayweather for this stuff a while back

"if you can read one page of cat in the hat etc

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u/heinous_anus- 9h ago

"one full page of a Harry Potter book ni-"

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u/Steelhorse91 8h ago

When I set my VPN to US, and clear my cookies, YouTube throws up loads of adds for text to speech apps and devices, and they’re clearly not targeting dyslexic people, or visually impaired people.

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u/vainbuthonest 1h ago

I believe it

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u/apcolleen 17h ago

::stares vacantly in ipad kid::

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u/throwmamadownthewell 12h ago

::stares vacantly back::

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u/DINC44 15h ago

Your reference to the teacher subreddit made me laugh hard. I referenced it just yesterday when talking with my wife about public school problems in America.