By linear extrapolation, one may conclude that China will reach its goal in 2025, while the US will only reach its goal in 2539
I'm not sure if I get that correctly but are you making fun of people protesting against homelessness? Besides: I'm not a native speak but the sign seems totally fine to me and the message totally valid.
Can someone fill me on the terms "homeless" vs. "unhoused"? Why is the latter being used more now?
Technically people who are couch surfing, sleeping in tents in campgrounds, or sleeping in garages or caravans are homeless as are people living in crisis accommodation. "Unhoused" lowers the statistic to just people without a roof over their head.
Houseless is a way to make homeless people roll their eyes and stop listening to you. If you want an excuse to not do effective work, then its as easy as using that term.
My take is it really doesn't actually do much (except perhaps reduce the sense of blame in the term homeless - i.e. unhoused implies they should be housed).
However chuds hate it because of that implication, therefore critical support for the semantic shift.
Standard lib response of "We won't actually change anything but we will change a word and act like it is a bigger deal than actually helping with your problems."
to a significant extent, it's the euphemism treadmill, but the usual argument i have seen is that homeless implies an inherent/permanent state of being while unhoused implies a more temporary one.
Fewer then 97% of China are fluent in English.
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Does anyone think of the poor old GOP? The GOP needs stupid, illiterate people! Who else is going to vote for them if people got smarter and better educated?
The Dems sure weren't thinking of the poor old GOP in the 42 years they simultaneously held both reps and senate in that era (58% of 72 years). The system needs stupid, illiterate people to tolerate it.
Is the 79% literacy of who can read English or read period? 79% seems insanely low
Have you seen the spelling and grammar on Facebook?
And it's often not a complete inability to read. They might recognise the shapes of words without knowing how to really read it, like when you go on holiday to a foreign country and start to pick up the local words for bus station or toilets because they're written everywhere.
People also tend to be able to hide illiteracy quite well, because they're embarrassed about it. The system failed them as a child, but has also convinced them it's their own fault.
That does make sense I guess. I haven’t really thought very much about it. Thanks for elaborating
Adults with the reading level of a small child, basically
English literacy skills sufficient to complete tasks that require comparing and contrasting information, paraphrasing, or making low-level inferences
Persons with very poor skills, for example, may be unable to determine the correct amount of medicine to give a child from information printed on the package
That actually explains so much about the US
I'm morbidly curious to see if the Chinese ministry has stats on national literacy of English, and if it's up in the 50s.
There's actually illiterate people in America? Wow, I need to expand my social circle or something
Functional illiteracy, they can read the words but not necessarily understand the full meaning of the paragraph. I do know one lady who is totally illiterate and has her grandkids read her mail to her, but she's ~90 and at least knows arithmetic.
I know plenty, including family members.
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