I don’t think typing forces you to learn anything except where the keys of the keyboard are. I don’t look at the words I am typing when I type. I just type. I could even be typing a bunch of things that are not spelled correctly. In fact, that’s how I learned to type. I
I do think you are wrong about literacy. To put it bluntly, it’s offensive to those of us that don’t know a foreign language.
By the way, it’s not that hard to figure out the meaning of some foreign words. For example, it’s really easy to figure out what grandioso means, and there are lots of words like that in Spanish, French, and Italian.
You can only do that with Latin based languages. You would not be able to do that with Mandarin or Japanese.
So basically, you are saying you are only truly literate if you know another Latin based foreign language.
Law students are required to know latin for good reason. I would say law students are the most literate of all of us. btw, I’m not fluent in any language other than english. I only know the very basics of french and spanish, and mostly only the written forms, not so much the spoken forms. 3 years of french in highschool and spanish just from picking things up here and there.