I feel like there's a joke about planned obsolescence in there. ๐ค
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Can someone fill me on the terms "homeless" vs. "unhoused"? Why is the latter being used more now?
to a significant extent, it's the euphemism treadmill, but the usual argument i have seen is that homeless implies an inherent/permanent state of being while unhoused implies a more temporary one.
Technically people who are couch surfing, sleeping in tents in campgrounds, or sleeping in garages or caravans are homeless as are people living in crisis accommodation. "Unhoused" lowers the statistic to just people without a roof over their head.
Houseless is a way to make homeless people roll their eyes and stop listening to you. If you want an excuse to not do effective work, then its as easy as using that term.
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There's actually illiterate people in America? Wow, I need to expand my social circle or something
I know plenty, including family members.
Functional illiteracy, they can read the words but not necessarily understand the full meaning of the paragraph. I do know one lady who is totally illiterate and has her grandkids read her mail to her, but she's ~90 and at least knows arithmetic.
literacy rates in socialist countries be like
I'm morbidly curious to see if the Chinese ministry has stats on national literacy of English, and if it's up in the 50s.
But at what cost?
I'm not sure if I get that correctly but are you making fun of people protesting against homelessness? Besides: I'm not a native speak but the sign seems totally fine to me and the message totally valid.
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