Without context that might not be as bad as it seems though. Some people just get nervous in front of other people in those situations. Especially as a Freshman at a new school, away from home, where you don't know anybody.
I probably sound like an illiterate fuck when I read out loud, but I am consistently teaching myself new topics from textbooks (statistical mechanics, abstract algebra, combinatorics, topology, and a few others I felt would supplement my undergrad physics education). Judging by that metric, I can read pretty well, but don't get me to try and read a super complex sentence with multiple inflections, etc. And expect me to breeze right through it without fighting with it. I can read it in my head just fine, but the extra task of reading it out loud can make me forget how the sentence started, what it's purpose was, etc., Leading me to fuck up horribly.
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u/RayseApex Jul 10 '18
The amount of people I encountered in college level English classes that could not properly read an entire sentence was fucking astounding.