Newspeak invention #4876

[Slargos]

Illiterate is now considered a hurtful word to describe people who can't read and will be replaced with "short time educated" or more specifically "short time educated newly arrived".

My life just shortened by a couple of days.

I'm going to have to go see a doctor about my blood pressure.

[Ed Anger]

I'm going to have to go see a doctor about my blood pressure.

Atenolol  works well.

[DisturbedPervert]

"short time educated newly arrived".

That's probably pretty hard to remember for morons that don't know how to read

[PDH]

Here the euphemism is "College Freshmen."

[DGuller]

Why not just call them "short bus educated"?

[Slargos]

Why not just call them "short bus educated"?

The idea is to make them seem less worthless.

Paperless, not illegals or damn dirty border jumpers who threw away their IDs to make it impossible to evict them

Angry dissafected youth not car burning stone throwing muslim hooligans

Refugees not Welfaremigrants without actual cause for asylum

The most restrictive asylum policy in Europe when less than 10% of "asylumseekers" were actually returned to their point of origin last year.

[DontSayBanana]

I hate PC-backpats. I'm not sure how the situation is in Scandiweenieland, but here, it would tick me off even more, because the problem is even more with high school graduates who are still illiterate/functionally illiterate.

[Monoriu]

We say "word blind".

[Slargos]

We say "word blind".

The phrase exists in swedish aswell but it is the less technical term for dyslexic rather than someone who never learned how to read in the first place.

[KRonn]

Illiterate is now considered a hurtful word to describe people who can't read and will be replaced with "short time educated" or more specifically "short time educated newly arrived".

My life just shortened by a couple of days.

I'm going to have to go see a doctor about my blood pressure.

May Hod help us!   

More of this crazy stuff. Um, can I still say crazy? Or even say stuff? Surely someone must be offended.   

[Josephus]

Here we just call them "Stoopid"

[The Brain]

I don't know where Slarg picks up this stuff. We must move in different circles. I usually meet educated and employed people.

[Slargos]

I don't know where Slarg picks up this stuff. We must move in different circles. I usually meet educated and employed people.

You just need to google it to verify.

I got this gem from flashback.

[garbon]

I'm pretty sure illiterate has been a hurtful term for a while.

[KRonn]

I'm pretty sure illiterate has been a hurtful term for a while.

Yes, kind of a tough term to be labeled illiterate. But I think that there's a standard to go by to determine literacy/illiteracy. For instance, governments and UN statements give out illiteracy rates and such for countries or regions. It isn't meant as a pejorative.