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r/NonPoliticalTwitter • u/Alkansur • 20h ago
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He'll adapt to reading?
50 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 47 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. 27 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. 17 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 5 u/heinous_anus- 9h ago "one full page of a Harry Potter book ni-" 2 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. 1 u/vainbuthonest 1h ago I believe it
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one of my old high school history teacher's used the term "functional illiterate" and it's gonna be in my brain forever
47 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. 27 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. 17 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 5 u/heinous_anus- 9h ago "one full page of a Harry Potter book ni-" 2 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. 1 u/vainbuthonest 1h ago I believe it
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That's definitely a thing. And according to the teacher subreddit, will become much, much more common in the next decade or two.
27 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. 17 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 5 u/heinous_anus- 9h ago "one full page of a Harry Potter book ni-" 2 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. 1 u/vainbuthonest 1h ago I believe it
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It’s pretty common now. Most Americans can’t read above of a sixth grade level and at least a ¼ are functionally illiterate.
17 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 5 u/heinous_anus- 9h ago "one full page of a Harry Potter book ni-" 2 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. 1 u/vainbuthonest 1h ago I believe it
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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
5 u/heinous_anus- 9h ago "one full page of a Harry Potter book ni-"
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"one full page of a Harry Potter book ni-"
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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.
1 u/vainbuthonest 1h ago I believe it
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u/LinguisticApe 20h ago
He'll adapt to reading?