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

On Sun, 3 Dec 2000 18:50:13 -0500, John Cowan <cowan@...> wrote:

>On Sun, 3 Dec 2000, Yoon Ha Lee wrote:
>
>> Hmm.  What *is* the literacy rate in the U.S., anyway?  <looking around>
>
>About 89%, scandalously low for a First World nation.  Essentially, the
>U.S. is a First World nation with a large Third World nation mixed up
>with it.  AKA "the world's largest banana republic."
Is that literacy in English, or literacy in any language?

Jeff