http://www.openeducation.net/2008/11/16/of-red-states-blue-states-and-illiterate-americans-the-challenges-facing-obama/ Free Education for All Fri, 13 May 2011 00:38:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 http://www.openeducation.net/2008/11/16/of-red-states-blue-states-and-illiterate-americans-the-challenges-facing-obama/#comment-5540 Rachel Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:14:09 +0000 http://www.openeducation.net/?p=676#comment-5540 I think an interesting thing to remember when looking at the vocabulary during debates is that attitudes about language may be the bigger factor, instead of education and literacy. Lincoln was self-educated; Obama graduated from Columbia and Harvard. When looking at literacy, education, and 'how people talk', we have to consider what the 'norm' of the time period is. In the age of email and text messaging, it should come as no surprise that language is less formal nowadays. I think an interesting thing to remember when looking at the vocabulary during debates is that attitudes about language may be the bigger factor, instead of education and literacy. Lincoln was self-educated; Obama graduated from Columbia and Harvard. When looking at literacy, education, and ‘how people talk’, we have to consider what the ‘norm’ of the time period is. In the age of email and text messaging, it should come as no surprise that language is less formal nowadays.

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