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America Is Sliding Toward Illiteracy (www.theatlantic.com)

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[–] yeahiknow3@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

What’s extra distressing is that these averages (the standards we’re falling behind) already represented zero capacity for rational and critical thought.

Seriously, most people are just confused animals with no abstract thoughts. The syntactic resemblance of their inane chatter to actual language is misleading.