A fork of Rural Dictionary
If you are reading this, you are not illiterate.
Hey, can you read this out loud for me?
What are you? Illiterate?
adj.
1.
a. Unable to read and write.
b. Having little or no formal education.
2.
a. Marked by inferiority to an expected standard of familiarity with language and literature: an illiterate magazine.
b. Violating prescribed standards of speech or writing: a paragraph with several illiterate expressions.
3. Ignorant of the fundamentals of a given art or branch of knowledge: musically illiterate. See Usage Note at literate.
n.
1. A person who is illiterate.
2. (used with a pl. verb) People who are illiterate, considered as a group.
Hey Chris can you read my essay for me?
Chris:Sure!
Oh wait you're fucking illiterate..
A person who has no understanding of pop culture, or any references regarding pop culture.
(could be music culture or media culture)
You are Pop culture illiterate.
Someone who is intelligent in school but has zero life or interpersonal skills.
"You're book smart and street illiterate."