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semiliteracy

NOUN
functional illiteracy
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But this disproves, rather than confirms, the charge of semiliteracy.

From Slate • Jan. 26, 2018

In Extraterritorial, he warns that a more current threat, "the drift and boredom of semiliteracy" �man's marriage of convenience to his words, threatens to crush the life out of all civilized languages.

From Time Magazine Archive




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