When it comes to my own personal definition of "literacy" or the noun "literate", I must first consider to constraints which bound the current dictionary definition of the word, "Literacy"which is as follows: "The quality or state of being literate, or able to read and write." Now, I feel this vague definition does no justice to the complexity and formation of actually becoming literate. I believe social class has everything to do with the application of the actual word, "literate". It is my assumption that being, or the act of becoming, literate, is to be societally assigned and dictated to the "proper" way of speaking, reading, and writing. As opposed to being "illiterate" where the structure and function of language is not, nor cannot, be fully understood. Which is cause for concern because something as multi-faceted and durable as language, cannot and must not be restricted to two polar opposite forms of "correctness" in the form of the words, "literate" and "illiterate".
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