I don't get the premise. Are most people illiterate or something?

I don't get the premise. Are most people illiterate or something?

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Well yes

Apparently they can’t write but can still read letters? It doesn’t make much sense.

Those of her customers who aren't poor illiterate farmers are average schmoes who could never string a few words together in a compelling manner. Kind of a precursor to Hallmark cards and such

Wasn't literacy pretty universal by the turn of the 20th century in Western Europe (which seems to be the setting of this anime/LN)?

Are you retarded?

explain to me how am I retarded

In the old days when analphabetism was a huge thing (up til mid 900 and in some places even later) people were paid to ghostwrite the same way one was asked or paid to read.
In many cases it was just as a courtesy, like you got your letter and asked the bartender or whatever to read it to you.

user, I might be crazy but those robot hands of her look a bit strange and I'm also pretty sure that there is no city called Leiden! This might be a grand conspiracy.

Most people are illiterate but can still read.
Go figure.

VEG is another kyoani masterpiece of wasted effort.

I think systems similar to the one in the show are still a thing in cuba and some third world countries in which education is low.

Try actually watching the anime, speedwatcher

>Most people are illiterate but can still read.

>I'm also pretty sure that there is no city called Leiden

>up til mid 900

...

Are you a speedwatcher?

That doesnt explain how they're able to read but not write though. If you can read letters you should be able to write them too right? Maybe it's a bit more difficult with kanji because of the stroke order and all that but it seems like they're just using letters that work like kana.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leiden

>I'm also pretty sure that there is no city called Leiden

People still use ghost writers for novels and autobiographies today. They acknowledge someone else could put their Ideas on paper far better than they ever could. Back then some people simply didn't have the skill for basic stuff. Read up on the era the show is based on, or open your mind a little.

If she's a robot how does she fuck?

Like fuck. You have more time than 99% of every human who has ever lived to spend your time idly shitposting on a website that gets you talking and thinking about your language every day. At no other point in human history have we had as much time to just pass the time by putting our thoughts into text and shooting them off into a void like this. Is it really that hard to believe that maybe lack of exposure to opportunities to read and write would lead some people to have others do it for them? They know the bare minimum to function, that's it, that's all you needed at one time. Use your head.

They can write, just not love letters or important ones or whatever, you get somebody who does that shit 50 hours a week to write it for you. Division of labor and all that, Adam Smith would be proud

Think about how common writing an email is in most people's daily routine. Not a skill you'd really think would need to be taught right? Wrong. Every program in information technology at the college I went to had a literacy course set up for people who had no idea how to write emails or common workplace documents. People who came from parts of the world where that wasn't a common skill. Not everyone is literate to your standards.

Think about how many people use editors, sure authors come up with something good but they have somebody else make sure they stay consistent or stick to a format that is desired by an individual or group of people. There are so many fuck reasons why this show should make sense to you.

literacy
noun [ U ] uk /ˈlɪt.ər.ə.si/ us /ˈlɪt̬.ɚ.ə.si/
the ability to read and write

They can read but they're still illiterate. It's kind of DJT niggers, they can read jap but can't write a word.