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[dreamer_easy]

Discussing "illiteracy" on the Intersplat (in this case, merely a defiantly casual attitude to typos) I looked up the stats on actual illiteracy in Australia, and was surprised to learn that about half of all adult Australians can't understand newspapers, forms, instructions, maps, timetables, etc etc, well enough "to meet the complex demands of everyday life and work in the emerging knowledge-based economy". Those are important things which people will put some effort into reading and thinking about. Flipping heck, what chance has a posting on the Internet got?!