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[–] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 4 days ago

Back before reading was really commonplace people could still read shop signs and things, but they couldn't really spell and anything more complicated than Chicken sold for $0.30 was probably beyond them, but that's all the average person needed.

How someone can be functionally illiterate when they were born in the mid 20th century is beyond me.