This issue is being framed incorrectly. There are different types of literacy. For example health literacy, the ability to find and understand info about health. If you see an English speaking doctor, much of the terminology they'll use is Latin or derived from Latin. 1/
"Cranial fracture" is more difficult to understand than "broken skull," especially for younger, under-educated, and non-native speakers. Other languages, even Romance languages, don't rely as heavily on actual Latin than English. 2/
This is way more complicated than "they should pick up a dictionary" -- if someone has a 5th grade education, they may not be able to spell or even pronounce Leukemia, and they shouldn't be punished because English is a weird language. 4/4
This is why some health establishments will refer to Leukemia, Lymphoma, and Myeloma simply as "blood cancer." Health literacy means patients not only have to understand what they have, they need to also be able to communicate it to the people in their lives. 3/
In 2016, I joined Imgur and rapidly earned millions of upvotes through my comments. They even gave me a premium membership for free so I don't see any ads. I have never managed that kind of bullshit Internet success again
My HS art teacher understood Bruce was different from the other advanced art kids. Bruce's only assignment ever was to draw kaiju. And this is what he did all day, every day, in every class: draw kaiju in a huge notebook. I don't know what happened to Bruce, but it better be related to Godzilla
The Rise of Skywalker is not only the best Star Wars movie, it's the pinnacle of cinema, a film that would make Georges Méliès and Sergei Eisenstein weep with ecstasy. Ray, Poe, and Fin are the archetypal characters of the new millennium, so perfect they should be etched in stone to preserve them fo
Glad to know in the ten years since I had a gym membership that gym salesmen are still sleazebags
you should all stop coming here to complain about things people said on twitter and start deleting twitter.
As an antisocial person, smoking usually gave me an opportunity to interact with people and schmooze. Then everyone quit smoking and it was just me smoking alone in an alley like a weirdo
