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19994640

Anonymous Sun Feb 27 22:06:38 2022 No.19994640 [Reply] [Original]

Is it possible to be a successful writer while being functionally illiterate? Has anyone managed it before?

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 27 22:09:10 2022 No.19994644 i think of myself as the jimi hendrix of literature

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 27 22:10:28 2022 No.19994647 >>19994644 That's a pretty pithy thing to say. Mind if I steal it?

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 27 22:10:35 2022 No.19994650 >>19994640 Yes, but not for you OP. Sorry.

>>	Dalschev Vastoon Krak Sun Feb 27 22:12:14 2022 No.19994655 >>19994647 credit me and its all yours my friend

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 27 22:15:04 2022 No.19994663 File: 6 KB, 206x206, disgusted will.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>19994640 >writer >illiterate

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 27 22:24:26 2022 No.19994694 >Langston Hughes >Ralph Ellison >Toni Morrison >Maya Angelou >James Baldwin >Alice Walker The list could go on..

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 27 22:27:11 2022 No.19994702 >>19994694 Come on man. >>19994640 Yes.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 27 22:28:57 2022 No.19994704 >>19994694 not cool bro...

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 27 22:30:52 2022 No.19994712 File: 292 KB, 1100x723, Working-with-People-with-Down-Syndrome-Things-You-Should-Know.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >Is it possible to be a successful mathematician while bring unable to learn subtraction? Has anyone managed it before?

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 27 22:31:48 2022 No.19994715 >>19994712 Computation is not mathematics

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 27 22:54:50 2022 No.19994793 >>19994640 just use a ghost writer i bet there are several criminals who have supposedly written autobiographies with very poor literacy skills

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 28 00:12:08 2022 No.19995024 >>19994640 most best sellers in genre fiction are so bad, they may as well be written by fat weebs or illiterate housewifes writing about their love of Chad.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 28 00:13:44 2022 No.19995027 >>19994640 McCarthy managed it.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 28 00:14:53 2022 No.19995030 File: 143 KB, 678x1024, depositphotos_10082829-stock-photo-down-syndrome-man-with-sausage.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>19995024 Does chad mean hot dog?

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 28 00:36:06 2022 No.19995071 >>19995030 whatever shit white american women likes.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 28 00:39:52 2022 No.19995078 File: 140 KB, 509x339, istockphoto-936626528-170667a.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] A small minority of the scribes who copied down the Bible were illiterate and had no exact idea what they were copying down---just symbols to them.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 28 01:10:40 2022 No.19995151 >>19994715 it isn't, but my nigga, you ain't getting a math degree if you can't subtract t. math BA