54% of adults have a literacy below a 6th-grade level (20% are below 5th-grade level).

#orality #aliterate #PostLiterate

https://www.thenationalliteracyinstitute.com/post/literacy-statistics-2024-2025-where-we-are-now


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We in Canada would love to see that, too.

A++ to Mango Mussolini for the grocer's apostrophe in his toot. Aliterate idiot.

Ong’s Oral Culture Recap

Where was I? I’ve forgotten where I was in reflecting on Ong’s Psychodynamics of Orality with our current culture. So this recap is partly for me as it is […]

https://whoisnick.com/ongs-oral-culture-recap/

Don’t get it. Won’t get it.

- https://whoisnick.com/dont-get-it-wont-get-it/

With what’s happened this week in the US, I’m going to focus in on the next characteristic of an oral culture that I think fits the bill. While moments like these have many more moving parts and are much more complex, perhaps there’s something in this one that might be relevant.

I’ve talked about this before, but let’s use it in terms of Ong this time. In his characteristics of an oral cultures he calls this:

Situational rather than abstract.

Oral cultures tend to use concepts in situational, operational frame of reference that are minimally abstract in the sense that they remain close to the human lifeworld

In other words, abstract generalisations go out the window. Inference and logic are illogical. An oral mind will stay rooted in the here and now and won’t even entertain the […]

You know what you can recall - https://whoisnick.com/you-know-what-you-can-recall/

Where was I in reviewing Ong’s characteristics of an Oral culture? I can’t recall.

A little searching ( clickity clickity )… here it is.

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For the most part, as you may have guessed, I’ve been arguing that we are returning to a mostly oral culture by saying we have the most of the characteristics. However, this is one where it doesn’t fully lock in for me […]

Proficiently Literate? - https://whoisnick.com/proficiently-literate/

There’s literate and then there’s proficiently literate. This whole idea that we are tipping into the postliterate relies on the idea that we are all literate; just don’t seem to care; prefer other oral based media.

So are we?

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Into Literacy

For the purposes of my little thought […]