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

Yoon Ha Lee wrote:
> 89% strikes me as pretty darn *high,* but then, my head sometimes get
> stuck in medieval history.  <laugh>
I have a hard time believing these figures.  I suppose that people could
be good at faking literacy, but I have a hard time believing that a
tenth, or even a quarter according to John Cowan, could be illiterate,
unless you're using a pretty narrow definition of literacy.

> If you want scandalously *high* literacy rates, go look at your average
> *badly* written fantasy novel in a quasi-medievalistic society.  <G>
Yeah, I've encountered those.  Literacy was something *rare* in medieval
times.

P.S., I bought the current issue of Fantasy and Science-Fiction.  Pretty
good story.

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