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Re:Nearly half of adult Canadians struggle with literacy by alpaca128 on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @05:26AM (#25831920)
> Ah, the ad hominem attack that has nothing to do with the substance of the argument.

If you judge others based on what they read you better meet your own standards, that's all I'm saying.

> Never mind that I'm not a native speaker

Me neither. Even though according to your statements in previous comments I'm illiterate.

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Re:Nearly half of adult Canadians struggle with literacy by coldtea on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @06:29AM (#25832388)
>If you judge others based on what they read you better meet your own standards, that's all I'm saying.

I don't judge any particular person, much less one I'm involved in argument with, for that to be an ad-hominen.

I also don't abstracty judge people in general/in toto (e.g. morally, or in some such capacity) I judge their literacy/culture etc.

For this purpose, "what you read" has historically been even better than a mere correlation / proxy (being "well read" having been an essential attribute of culture).

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