Semi-literate bantu
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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.