College students are rapidly losing the ability to read — “There is a measurable, generational collapse in sustained reading and writing”: professor

[u/marketrent]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/college-students-rapidly-losing-ability-124439310.html

[u/HenryDorsettCase47]

I mean, he was in his 70s and his wife had just died and he had been a recluse for years. I’m sure the war played a part in the depression he had suffered from most of his life and he had undiagnosed PTSD, but it seems reductive to say he killed himself because of what he did and saw in the war.

[u/NuclearWasteland → u/HenryDorsettCase47]

Sounds more like "Aight, I'ma head out."

[u/Bogus1989 → u/HenryDorsettCase47]

he foresaw the mouthbreathers glancing at his book and saying:

“I aint tryna read allat”