To: kattracks
What a bunch of clowns all you who have posted and Newmax are. Poking fun at Jesse for making up a word when unliterate IS a word!! This is from the Oxford English Dictionary:
unliterate, a.
a. Illiterate.
a1548 HALL Chron., Hen. IV, 11 These monasticall persones, lerned and vnliterate. 1688 W. SCOT Hist. Fam. Scot p. v, An unliterate Souldier.
b. Unliterary; not interested in reading or literature. Also absol.
1950 M. MEAD Male & Female xiii. 271 The Gesell norms used by the reading mother or the neighbourhood gossip of the unliterate. 1960 Guardian 13 June 5/2 The innumerate humanist and the unliterate scientist were equally inadequate.
Granted, it's an obscure word (not in any of my dictionaries except the OED, but the OED is the gold standard for the English language), but unliterate IS a word.
Do you think Newsmax will run a retraction? Yeah, me neither. Is retraction even in Newsmax's dictionary? Does Newsmax even own a dictionary?
To: Your Nightmare
[sorry about the HR]
To: Your Nightmare
UNliterate: well versed in double speak, BS, Clintonese, Ananish and fibbingese.
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