Literacy

What is literacy?
Literacy is defined as being able to read and write according to wordnet.princeton.edu of Princeton University. To me literacy is that but more. To be fully able to understand what you read and write you also have to comprehend what you read and write. You have to understand what you are about to say and write. Anyone after learning how to spell and sound out words can write a sentence. But what does it mean without comprehension of the statement. Literacy is fundamental and needed, without it people would be wasting a lot more oxygen, and its not like enough is already being wasted from people just talking and writing because they can but not saying anything. Cherish literacy, some people would kill for it.
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