/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.15231110]

How much do you value literacy in people? Would you have illiterate peers? What about romantic partners? Maybe you'd find illiteracy cute, like a small child or animal.
>tfw no illiterate wife to read things to

[Anonymous No.15231119]

>>15231110
I wouldnt care at all

[Anonymous No.15231165]

>>15231119
Someone being illiterate is a hard thing to be indifferent to. They could hardly use the internet, they can't be texted or emailed, they can't watch foreign movies or play video games that have reading. Not to mention job prospects

[Anonymous No.15231798]

>>15231110
Being raised on the internet, I heavily overestimated the English skills of the average person. I only recently got my first cell phone, and it's weird to realize that all your family members speak in slang and gibberish. I don't think I'm particularly good at writing or anything like that, but apparently I'm stuck up and pretentious about it.

[Anonymous No.15231813]

>>15231165
I really don't care, Im a useless retard too

[Anonymous No.15231861]

How the fuck can someone not read and write lmao

[Anonymous No.15232323]

>>15231813
Oh... based

[Anonymous No.15232448]

>>15231110
I would imagine it would be a farmer in a third would country. First, I would feel a sense of harmless envy as I reflect upon his simple and humble life. Then, I would contemplate if my life is not worth living, or if it is the farmer’s life not worth living. I conclude that he lives the better spiritual life,
but I’m too proud to give up my comforts. A somber, but satisfactory conclusion of my daydream.

[Anonymous No.15232482]

>>15231110
I wouldn't mind but as long as we had a few things in common we really and could socialize well and were in love

[Anonymous No.15232599]

>>15231110
>What about romantic partners?
If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!

[Anonymous No.15232614]

>>15231165
>They could hardly use the internet, they can't be texted or emailed, they can't watch foreign movies or play video games that have reading. Not to mention job prospects
All objectively good traits in a wife

[Anonymous No.15232673]

>>15231110
A lot of my friends don't read books. One time a group of them laughed at me cuz I asked them If they read something.

They are great friends, got one to read half of Jurassic park on a plane. He loved it and never finished it

[Anonymous No.15232714]

>>15232673
I don’t think OP meant like that. They meant someone who can’t even read store names. Originally, literate just meant someone who could read or write- no matter how basic.

[You No.15232796]

>>15232714
Yea there isn't really anyone like that in USA except maybe crack whores

[Anonymous No.15232809]

>>15232796
OP isn’t asking if you have illiterate peers. They are asking WOULD you have illiterate peers. It’s hypothetical, not factual.

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>>15231110
>tfw no illiterate Mongolian wife

[You No.15232831]

>>15232809
If I could I would, but I don't know how

[You No.15232840]

>>15232826
Hey butterfly are you a chick or a dude

[Anonymous No.15232894]

>>15232796
>>15232809
You'd be surprised. Illiteracy is difficult to account for because many people keep it secret; there really are some people who just "didn't learn how to read or write" even after getting through school. How they got through seems to be case to case and dependent on generation -- but they're out there.
>>15232840
Don't bother man: Trannyfly's trip got stolen or something so who can even say who's the real one now.
>>15232831
Why do you want illiterate friends?

[Anonymous No.15232902]

>>15231110
>tfw no daughter wife to bond with by teaching her how to read

[Anonymous No.15233581]

>>15232902
>tfw no qt illiterate daughter wife who will meekly have to come up to you whenever she needs something read
>tfw no qt illiterate daughter wife who needs lists with drawings or symbols on them for grocery shopping
tfw no qt illiterate daughter wife who will sit with you in your study and have you read books to her like a child
>tfw no qt illiterate daughter wife who needs you to order for her at restaurants
>tfw no qt illiterate daughter wife who will get frustrated or embarrassed at her own ineptitude and dependence
>tfw no qt illiterate daughter wife who feels like she's disappointing and disgracing you by being illiterate
>tfw no qt illiterate daughter wife who will try her hardest to learn how to read and ask you to teach her
>tfw no qt illiterate daughter wife who will pout and cry when she struggles and falters
>tfw no qt illiterate daughter wife who finally begins to become literate and feels such pride in her growth she cries
>tfw no qt literate daughter wife who writes you a short childish and simple love letter as a thank you
This is hell and we are burning

[Anonymous No.15233676]

>>15233581
why live

[Anonymous No.15233930]

>>15232614
It would make it very hard to cheat or even become mentally corrupt or depraved

[Anonymous No.15234048]

>>15232894
thank you for this vintage kek

those were the days

[Anonymous No.15234145]

The ability of any of my colleagues to properly articulate him/herself is scarce, and I am in a line of work necessarily employing only the highly educated. Hence, most people are retards. If you can't master anything as primitive as the niceties of your native language and adapt it to convey your ideas, you probably can't do anything to a very great degree of competence.

[Anonymous No.15234289]

What if the only book my S.O. read(s) is/was the Bible and finds any other form of literature useless/boring.

[Anonymous No.15234347]

>>15234289
That’s sounds like Hasidic Jews and Wahhabis Muslims. They consider reading anything, studying anything or doing anything that’s not religious as pointless.

[Anonymous No.15234415]

FUCK THAT, I could never date or befriend an illiterate. How would they even navigate the world? They would express themselves through memes and soundbytes, pre-recorded lines. They would never be able to find the correct and proper words for their desires or emotional states. It would literally be like talking to an NPC. Why the fuck would I communicate with subhumans?

[Anonymous No.15234427]

>>15234347

:(
I got her pregnant

[Anonymous No.15234433]

>>15234289
then she’s based and you should put lots of babies in her

[Anonymous No.15234443]

>>15234427
Samsara keeps spinning. Kill yourself and try again in the next life.

[Anonymous No.15235226]

>>15232826
Mongolia, like all former communist countries, has a very high literacy rate

[Anonymous No.15236440]

>>15234048
No problem

[Anonymous No.15236583]

>>15231110
>Maybe you'd find illiteracy cute, like a small child or animal.
My foreign wife's weird syntax and accent indeed make my peepee diamond hard.
As a qualified retard, I can't even understand her native language though.

[Anonymous No.15236602]

>>15233581
just get an azn waifu retard

[Anonymous No.15236690]

>>15231110
Actually neat question, though this has devolved into a very gay thread. I work with a lot of ESL filipinos in my field (maritime). I like most of them, and they can be exremely proficient at the job while simultaneously being almost incapable of speaking english, and certainly unable to read it. I find most of them easy to work with, often times easier than some very literate people. That being said it is their second language and i'm sure most of them read and speak Tagalog or another native tongue. All in all I like working with them, regardless if they can read as well as I.

[Anonymous No.15236726]

>>15231110
Utter illiteracy would be unacceptable for me. That being said, I've never had a partner who read nearly as much as I do. But that's okay with me as long as she's a curious and thoughtful enough person that I can talk to her about various things I've gleaned from my reading. For me, curiosity is much more important in a romantic partner than sheer intellect.

[Anonymous No.15236971]

>>15236690
>this has devolved into a very gay thread
nuh uh