From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Gene Heskett >I lived there for my first 25 years, and never met anyone except an old recent >emmigrant german farmer that signed his checks with an x mark but wrote the check >in german. The checks were always good, but his speech was littered with >germanisms... He died before I got wanderlust. And we were pretty good at >statistics thank you. So you define illiterate as whether someone can sign their name or not. Some define it as not able to read a help-wanted ad in a newspaper or a news article and tell you what it said. Some would say it is a working vocabulary of less than 3 or 4 thousand words. Others would say it means that one can't spell 'emigrant' or can't figure out how to use a spell checker ;-) Hey isn't this what started this thread? ;-)
