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by EGreg 1377 days ago
How do you know that a desperate mama bear can't learn to read?

https://theconversation.com/can-crows-read-3740 hehehehehe

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That's not reading, though. My son can do what these crows can: associate familiar symbols with some concept: "green cross" means pharmacy, "Auchan" means the big shop with carts. However, he is disabled and can't read in the sense of "process novel information provided in textual form".