Ever wonder if illiterate people get the full effect of alphabet soup?
88493
Good point, alphabet soup is truly discriminatory towards the illiterate.
624126
Can't read, write and spell?  Unfortunately that happens to a quarter to a third of people even those that are "educated" in the public school system.  Graduates of high schools that cannot read and write, essentially functionally illiterate, are commonplace.  \n\nHaving said that, you must realize that the only person that really cares about you is you.  If you insist on blaming everyone else for you shortcoming you will ultimately fail to progress.  Get your sorry ass  into night school or get a private tutor or a free adult literacy program, by any means necessary, the help is out there and the decision is yours to make.
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Yes, I can read it. It says:\nDid you know that the human brain can read a word withough the letters being in order? It's cool isn't it? I got an e-mail about this and could actually read it! If you can read this, then what does it say?
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This is a difficult question to answer because the data would be hard to find.  If by "reading problems" you mean dyslexia, etc., there is no way you're going to find an answer.  People, especially adults, with such problems will not be eager to admit to the problem.  If by "reading problems" you mean illiteracy, US's illiteracy rate is about 1-2% (along with most other industrialized countries).\n\nYou can get pretty high up, too, with reading problems.  Check out this article from last November: http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/11/11/news/profile.php\nHead coach of the Montreal Canadians admitted to being illiterate.
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I agree with you. It is so hard to read the writing with all the slang and ganster vocab. Shows no signs of intelligence. If they took the time in school to learn how to type (much less read and write) then how do they expect to get serious and intelligent answers?
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Yes.\n\nAs a matter of fact, there is a condition where people are born with the inability to learn words or symbology. However, their concepts are intact. For example, such a person will never, ever, no matter how many times you tell them, associate the word "scissors" with the things that cut, but if they want to cut a piece of paper, they will go straight to the drawer, get out the scissors, and use them to cut the paper. They have full understanding of what scissors are, but merely lack the ability to attach a word to it.\n\nOf course, such a person wouldn't be using a dictionary. But, you can conceptualize a person who has normal language abilities, but whose family always said, "if you don't know a word, look it up in that big blue book under the coffee table," and just never heard the word "dictionary." Or they may have always called it a "lexicon." \n\nHave you ever looked up the word "lexicon?" How about synonyms for "thesaurus?"
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This is a pet peeve of mine as well.  I don't know how much of it is poor education and how much just not being able to type.\n\nWith computer use exploding, I would think that a typing/keyboarding class in school could be a core requirement.  It would surely reduce the amount of completely ridiculous text I'm forced to decode daily.
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Hey, have you ever seen of the little Spell Check (ABC) link right above where you typed this jibberish?\n\nWhat the hell are you talking about.\nAre you retarded?
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I actually have heard of such programs. However I think it was a word program for word perfect. Someone told me when they told it to type something, it typed things all funky, because it didn't understand what she was saying. \nI am sure there is something of this nature for those people are not able to type. Keep looking, I am sure you will find it!
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I personally thought it was kind of funny. I did not see how it slammed deaf-mute people in any way. Some people have no sense of humor, huh? Well, the answer to your question is, yes, because they do speak, just in a way that most of us can't understand. They'd probably have to get an interpreter, though. Someone who signs. Who me, you need a life. bragging about being on level 5 only means that you spend WAY too much time on the computer. Get out there and socialize!
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Yes, I've met a few. I always thought it was really amazing how they learnt to communicate with others. They use a form of sign language, like finger-spelling, but can you imagine how hard it must be to teach them the words and their meanings in the first place? Totally amazing people.
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Maybe if you learned to spell......
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From A to Z you say?  Okay let me figure this out....after analyzing the alphabet....I'm somewhere between S and T. Now that I see it in print ...I see some missing letters that form a word we say often when we are angry...lol lol lol.....I'm retired....and enjoying yahoo answers....addicted you might say.....thanks for this fun question...
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The place is littered with people who are basically functionally illiterate, and I think it's disheartening to see how much of the public is simply too stupid or ignorant to form a sentence.  It's bad enough that some of them couldn't spell a word even at gunpoint, but a good bunch of them cannot even ask a simple question in a way that makes sense.  \n\nNow, a lot of them are young and "chat lazy".  They think that the creative spelling, lack of punctuation and capitalization, and chatspeak shorthand they use in their IM sessions is appropriate everywhere on the internet.  Bzzzt! Wrong answer!
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And your illiteracy is cool because...?
920481
It is called the alphabet soup.
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I would hazard a guess that the individual with a rudimentary knowledge of the English language - particularly in spelling - might make quite an impact.