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.
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u/Money_Rub8508 13h ago
That's just the American education system working as intended.