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		dannyp32 on March 7, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Country That Stopped Reading Well that's not what the author means by illiterate. He uses it as a way of saying that they virtually never read books.

raverbashing on March 7, 2013 | [–]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_illiteracy

corporalagumbo on March 7, 2013 | [–]

I wouldn't be surprised if the word/s the author used in Spanish for illiteracy indicated this distinction, which has then been lost in translation. Maybe.

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