What is the language "British"?

[Michael P. Brininstool]

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On Behalf Of Gene Heskett

>I lived there for my first 25 years, and never met anyone except an old
recent
>emmigrant german farmer that signed his checks with an x mark but wrote the
check
>in german.  The checks were always good, but his speech was littered with
>germanisms...  He died before I got wanderlust.  And we were pretty good at
>statistics thank you.

So you define illiterate as whether someone can sign their name or not.
Some define it as not able to read a help-wanted ad in a newspaper or
a news article and tell you what it said.  Some would say it is a working
vocabulary of less than 3 or 4 thousand words.  Others would say it means
that one can't spell 'emigrant' or can't figure out how to use a spell
checker ;-)
Hey isn't this what started this thread?  ;-)