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Semi-literate bantu (pomf2.lain.la)
posted 1 year ago by CognitiveDissident5 on scored.co (+0 / -0 / +42Score on mirror )
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jack445566778899 on scored.co
1 year ago 3 points (+0 / -0 / +3Score on mirror ) 2 children
This is a valid use of the english language. This is the equivalent to claiming "the glass is half full" is the only right way to say it, and ridiculing those who say "the glass is half empty".
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OppressorClass on scored.co
1 year ago 2 points (+0 / -0 / +2Score on mirror ) 1 child
I bet you think "illiterate" and "not literate" are also interchangeable.
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jack445566778899 on scored.co
1 year ago 1 point (+0 / -0 / +1Score on mirror ) 1 child
I do.

"Ill", the prefix, is "bad/sick". This includes all magnitudes, from a little to all the way bad.

The question i have is, why don't you think they are interchangeable?
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OppressorClass on scored.co
1 year ago 0 points (+0 / -0 ) 1 child
Well, retard, you're wrong. "Illiterate" means "unable to read", and "not literate" means that a person has not read enough of the right literature. Often there is a bit more context involved with the latter, such as, "Frank is not literate in [something]", but it can also be used without extra context, and is then usually more of a judgement of a person's level of well-read-ness.
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jack445566778899 on scored.co
1 year ago 0 points (+0 / -0 )
> Well, retard, you're wrong.

Spoken like a true intellectual.

> "Illiterate" means "unable to read", and "not literate" means that a person has not read enough of the right literature

Fascinating distinction. I don't see any reason for that to be the case semantically (and the definition of literate makes that clear), but i can appreciate that it is nonetheless colloquially true.

"Not literate" still **literally** means "not able to read", even if colloquially/idiomatically it has another connotation.
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llamatr0n on scored.co
1 year ago 2 points (+0 / -0 / +2Score on mirror ) 1 child
no. consider the semi-circle.
or semi-automatic.
or semi-final.
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jack445566778899 on scored.co
1 year ago 2 points (+0 / -0 / +2Score on mirror )
semi means partial, "ill" is a different prefix which does not preclude "completely" (nor a lesser magnitude)

If illiterate means : completely unable to read and semi means partial, then what is wrong with saying "partially unable to read"?
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