How To Use Aliterate In A Sentence
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For high schoolers who are strongly aliterate as opposed to illiterate I have sucessfully gotten them off Spark Notes and Cliff Notes by encouraging them to download the classics from their reading lists.
Audible.com says "Don't Read"
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As Baron points out, "Many of this generation are aliterate — they know how to read but don't choose to.
Read The Whole Thing
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I would say there are many in my generation that are as "aliterate" as the younger generation mentioned in the LA Times - though I don't know what the percentage comparison would be.
Re: Read The Whole Thing
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Unfortunately, the "intelligence" of the video is in the subtext, something that aliterate people would not be able to pick up on if they don't, indeed, "read a book.
Book Smarts, Street Smarts: So Long at the Fair
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But, from whichever direction it is approached, the same gulf lies between literate and aliterate minds.
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Of course, in fiction the brother would have made something up that implied he had read Cormier's books, and the author would have invited him out to lunch to hear what young people are up to these days, and the brother would have phoned Peter for tips on what to say, and Peter would have insisted on coming along in the role of his own aliterate brother, and ... laffs galore, people!
Archive 2008-03-01
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One sign of this instinct is the apparent rise in the number of aliterates - individuals who can read, but choose not to.
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Aliterate children can read, but they tend to avoid the activity.
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I, too, thanks to the wonder of the Internet can be a slush reader... publishers give me that factor that the work had to meet the requirements of the publisher to get distributed, thereby eliminating forests full of manuscripts regarded as commercially unviable, most of which I expect I would regard and aliterate and vile.
Making Light: The "agency model" as I understand it
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Our literacy rate falls year by year, and even many who can read do not read, the so-called aliterates.
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And if that doesn't work, the aliterate malcontents resort to book burning demonstrations.
The Mondays: Banned Books Week
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That's a problem because the point of McGruder's style of pop-cultural subversion is to get the revolutionary message into the minds of the unthinking, aliterate media consumer.
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Through a national program called The Big Read, the NEA is committing resources to motivate aliterates to read again.
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I could never get that idea, the notion that society in general is becoming aliterate, out of my head," he says.
Novelist Neal Stephenson Once Again Proves He's the King of the Worlds
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In the article, Allemang discusses the growth of the ‘aliterate’ reader - people like us who are educated and may even think of ourselves as dedicated to the written word.
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Most aliterates watch television for their news, but the entire transcript of a television newscast would fill only two columns of the New York Times.
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We are, as the experts like to say with a horrified sense of wonder, aliterate - able to read, and read well, but disinclined to do so.
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Lots of aliterates, according to Trelease, say they just don't have time to read anymore.
