reader (who knows how to read but chooses not to) n.: aliterate
Aliteracy . . . like an invisible liquid, seeping through our culture, nigh impossible to pinpoint or defend against. It’s the kid who spends hours and hours with video games instead of books. . . . There may be untold collateral damage in a society that can read but doesn’t. “So much of our culture is embedded in literature,” says Philip A. Thompsen, professor of communications at West Chester University in West Chester, Pa. He adds that . . . aliterate students are “missing out on our cultural heritage.” (Linton Weeks, “Aliteracy: Read All About It, or Maybe Not; Millions of Americans Who Can Read Choose Not To,” Washington Post, 5/14/2001.)
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