Something like 15% to 20% of adult Americans are functionally illiterate, 2nd grade or lower reading ability.

The average adult American reads at the level of a 5th/6th grader, an 11 year old.

Yeah. We actually are just really dumb, on average.

We have literacy levels that are comparable to places far, far less economically developed or wealthy overall, or per capita than us.

But anyways yes, there will always be a bit thats still lost in… I guess you could say ‘cultural translation’.

Particularly idioms, hahah!