11 milion americans are illiterate

[hobbes]

That means approximately 3.5% are illiterate.

I tried to find the article on The Daily Record, but couldn't. I wanted to check out the article.

The question I had was how did they factor up this number? Was it only among English speakers? Was it everyone? I mean there is approximately 30 million people here that do not speak English.

I heard that the study included 8 million under the age of 2 and several million more that were quite dead

[Santa]

as long as they are happy

[hobbes]

as long as they are happy

That is a good point, but I find illiterate peoples' expressions' hard to ...um...read.

My concern is for the illegible.

[Spider_dude]

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/12/15/D8EGQEMOE.html

found by following the link from this guys blog

http://motopolitico.blogspot.com/

check his name though

which was found by googling

http://www.google.com/search?q=%2211...-US%3Aofficial

[JPaul]

Are we talking illiterate as in, just canny do it, pas de reading and writing. If that be the case then such a high proportion of the population is quite frightening.

Do you really want to give the vote to chap who can't read a newspaper, or a bus timetable.

Not that it makes you a bad person .... just a stupid one.

With apologies to any illiterates who are having this read to them, obviousement.

[Barbarossa]

If there are any illiterate Americans reading this, please comment below..

[Barbarossa]

There are only three types of accountant..






...those that can count and those who cannot.

Where is the other one?

Nice one!

[Darth Sushi]

No wonder Bush won the elections

[Yogs]

America has elections????

[Wolfmight]

15 million americans get pornagraphic emails hidden in e-christmas cards every year.



source, my ass.