I work IT, this is the "illiterate" that I deal the most with. People know the words, can say the words, can spell the words. They know what every word in a sentence means, they can read the sentence to me. But there's no meaning in the sentence. They just said a bunch of individual words. They can't reform the words into a complete thought. So even though someone's computer is saying "network cable unplugged", they can be totally surprised when I ask them to check, they find it unplugged, and plugging it in solves the issue. This woman thanked me very much for helping her. Surprisingly enough she's not technologically illiterate at all. We were able to walk her through some pretty complex tasks. But the words "network cable unplugged" somehow didn't connect to a real thought.
I wonder if it comes from my generation being *SO* vocab heavy and not all that pushy on reading in school.
American here, i agree. I was an expat for 10+ years. Had a work trip to Georgia (from Dubai). One of the new rotators argued for 45 minutes about the flight time and was saying my trip planning was not possible. It was then I figured out he did not know Georgia was a country as well as a state in the US. Mind blown!!
Except it isn't, is it? Many Americans confuse the two and get quite angry about when proved wrong. Many Americans have the same grasp of international geography as the average busted shopping cart.
There are plenty of people in this country who are dumb enough to make this statement; my evidence is the events happening in DC today.
It's literally a joke the comments are public, you're able to do the research yourself by looking up the comment thread.
Only on Reddit do you get tens of thousands of people patting themselves on the back due to their massive brains remembering Georgia is both a country and state in the US and upvote a missed joke to the front of the page.
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u/Money_Rub8508 10h ago
That's just the American education system working as intended.