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maninthestreet wrote: »How many people do you know who have a mobile phone but can't read???
Not being able to read doesn't make you deaf and mute you know. After all, talking and listening is what mobile phones are really for, not just texting and looking at facebook
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pulliptears wrote: »I think you are confusing illiteracy with blindness....
reading road signs, parking times, directions, warnings... my town has wordy signs explaining the one-way system and bollards.
How do they even know where theyre going?
I mean, if they can read the road signs, surely they're at a point of literacy, recognising similar word structures, the letters, learning that the words they're reading are comprised of individual letters that inform the pronunciation and form of the words. If they're getting to that point, then illiteracy is just laziness because they already have a foundation.
If they can't read road signs at all because they're completely illiterate, then they're going to be a danger to other road users when they get to a sign informing them of a safety hazard, or a diversion, or that a road is closed.0 -
reading road signs, parking times, directions, warnings... my town has wordy signs explaining the one-way system and bollards.
How do they even know where theyre going?
Ever driven in a foreign country? One where you don't know the language?
By your reasoning I couldn't drive in Germany for example because I don't speak German and their signs don't have English as well.0 -
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If they are illiterate they won't recognise the problems with this!0 -
If they are illiterate they won't recognise the problems with this!
My mistake, I should have used composed. I was typing with one hand, eating a sausage sandwich with the other, and reading up on the evolution of English in the early-modern period at the same time. Unfortunately, this meant that I afforded none of the tasks the necessary attention.pulliptears wrote: »Ever driven in a foreign country? One where you don't know the language?
By your reasoning I couldn't drive in Germany for example because I don't speak German and their signs don't have English as well.
Alas, I do not have the money to drive. However, I have never travelled to a country where I haven't taken the time and effort to learn at least a workable amount of the native language. I consider it both negligent and presumptuous to expect the natives to speak english should you get into trouble. What if you get lost, need directions, or get a taxi, or use public transport?
Granted, in Germany, if they detect you're not a native speaker, or you get stuck, they'll revert to english, but that didn't happen in Japan. If I could neither ask where the station was or understand the reply (or read the signs) I'd have been royally screwed, because there wasn't much Romanji to be found.
So in those cases, I'd be wary of driving in countries where I couldn't read the signs. Granted, speed limits are obvious and a number of signs use a more pictorial language, but surely it must be a pain to try and navigate when the signs you do have to read are in a language you don't understand?
If you got clamped or towed because you couldn't read the small print on a french sign, would "Oh, I couldn't read that" be a valid excuse?0 -
Still doesn't alter the fact that it is perfectly legal to hold a UK driving licence if you are illiterate. How they get around issues like parking is I suspect different for every individual, I imagine some have family who accompany them who can read.0
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I just realised... is the theory test not written? How do they get round that?0
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I just realised... is the theory test not written? How do they get round that?
A voiceover is provided by the DVLA for those who are special needs.
https://www.gov.uk/driving-theory-test/if-you-have-special-needs0 -
pulliptears wrote: »Still doesn't alter the fact that it is perfectly legal to hold a UK driving licence if you are illiterate.
That must explain why so many people cant understand
TIMED BUS LANES, NO PARKING ETC
then :mad:Never ASSUME anything its makes a>>> A55 of U & ME <<<0
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