semi-literate

I'm an old media guy and I love newspapers, but they were brought down by a long period of gluttonous profits when they were run as monopolies by large, phlegmatic, semi-literate men who endowed schools of journalism that labored mightily to stamp out any style or originality and to create a cadre of reliable transcribers.

Keillor on newspapers (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009

And they were delivered with the slow deliberate authority of a semi-literate kindergarten teacher.

Andy Stokan: My Rebuttal to the Rebuttal to the Rebuttal to the State of the Union Andy Stokan 2011

You are living in a false paradise fostered by unintended racism on your part because you think that semi-literate peasant farmer raises better eggs than Chedraui´s suppliers.

mexican food 2009

I'm an old media guy and I love newspapers, but they were brought down by a long period of gluttonous profits when they were run as monopolies by large, phlegmatic, semi-literate men who endowed schools of journalism that labored mightily to stamp out any style or originality and to create a cadre of reliable transcribers.

Jack Bog's Blog: August 2009 Archives 2009

The ground forces at Tora Bora were overwhelmingly provided by a motley crew of Afghan commanders: Haji Zaman Gamsharik, an Afghan who had been living in exile in the comfortable environs of Dijon, France, before he returned to Afghanistan as the Taliban fell; Hazarat Ali, a nose-picking, semi-literate from a local tribe who spoke the obscure Pashai language; and Hajji Zahir, the twenty-seven-year-old son of a Jalalabad warlord.

The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011

And when semi-literate corrupt fame balls pretend to enter politics for fiscal gain, and when coke addled legacy presidents lie to us and get our American sons and daughters murdered in illegal wars, well, we don't tolerate that either.

In Eugene, Palin says she eats granola too 2010

Built by a semi-literate Italian immigrant named Simon Rodia, who worked alone for 33 years from 1921 to 1954, the Towers are a 15-minute Metro ride from the city centre.

Watts Towers: LA's weird masterpiece 2011

He had risen out of poverty, Moammar Gadhafi, a semi-literate desert boy who had made his way to the military academy.

Gadhafi and the Swindle of Dictatorship Fouad Ajami 2011

You are living in a false paradise fostered by unintended racism on your part because you think that semi-literate peasant farmer raises better eggs than Chedraui´s suppliers.

mexican food 2009

The boorish, semi-literate "shlemazl," whom I have allowed to post here despite his utter lack of civility, is banned as of now.

Archive 2009-04-01 2009