-
Historian John Mack
Faragher cautions that the folk
image of
Boone as
semiliterate is misleading,
arguing that
Boone "acquired a
level of
literacy that...
- on the
fierce concern with the news that they find in
preliterate or
semiliterate peoples. [...] It is difficult, if not impossible, to find a society...
- said of Bonanno, "In a
world where most of the
players were, at best,
semiliterate,
Bonanno read poetry,
boasted of his
knowledge of the classics, and gave...
-
muscles his way into an
audition and wins. In the film,
Leroy is also
semiliterate, but this was
dropped in
favor of him
having "fourth-grade
reading level"...
- far
enough from the
spelling as to make the
speaker sound potentially semiliterate. This
shibboleth was
referenced in the Oscar-winning
movie Argo. Vancouver...
-
Istanbul adventure or
those dry
reports in the 'abbreviated
style of the
semiliterate Soviet'."
Before the book was published,
Matthews sold the
movie rights...
- life
attain to reliability, it is
forever open to the
uninformed or
semiliterate meddler... The user who
visits Wikipedia to
learn about some subject...
-
nearly 1.1 billion in 1985,
about 230 million
people were
illiterate or
semiliterate. The
difficulty of
mastering written Chinese makes raising the literacy...
- this
second wave was more
diverse in
terms of
class origin. Many were
semiliterate farmers, fishermen, and small-town
merchants with
little or no familiarity...
- Altman-Brackett Marlowe, pla**** by
Elliott Gould, is an untidy, unshaven,
semiliterate, dim-wit slob who
could not
locate a
missing skys****er and
would be...
