Re: CHAT (POLITICS!!!): Putting the duh in Florida

En réponse à Irina Rempt <ira@...>:

>
> That's really scandalously low. The last figure I read for the
> Netherlands was 98%, not counting those 5-7% of people over fifteen
> who are functionally illiterate (nominally literate, but at the
> approximate level of an eight-year-old; they can *read* all right,
> but don't expect them to *understand* anything). Our almost
> seven-year-old is better than that :-)
>
In France it is said that the level of alphabetism (people who can read and
write) is about 95%, but the level of literacy (people who can understand what
they read) goes down to about 90%. That's quite low, and doesn't come (contrary
to what those extreme-right people say) only from the foreigners living in
France (they are counted in the figures).