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

On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Jeff Jones wrote:

> 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?
Huh--hadn't thought of that.  I bet the figure goes up considerably if
you figure literacy in any language.  :-)

YHL