Noun : Schools are worried about producing aliterates who prefer television to books. From Dictionary.com.
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. From Wordnik.com. [Re: Read The Whole Thing] Reference
And if that doesn't work, the aliterate malcontents resort to book burning demonstrations. From Wordnik.com. [The Mondays: Banned Books Week] Reference
As Baron points out, "Many of this generation are aliterate — they know how to read but don't choose to.". From Wordnik.com. [Read The Whole Thing] Reference
"I could never get that idea, the notion that society in general is becoming aliterate, out of my head," he says. From Wordnik.com. [Novelist Neal Stephenson Once Again Proves He's the King of the Worlds] Reference
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.". From Wordnik.com. [Book Smarts, Street Smarts: So Long at the Fair] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Audible.com says "Don't Read"] Reference
I'm always running into regular dudes--construction workers, auto mechanics, taxi drivers, galoots in general--who were largely aliterate until something made it necessary for them to become readers and start actually thinking about things. From Wordnik.com. [Interested in the new Christopher Nolan film?] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Making Light: The "agency model" as I understand it] Reference
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!. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-03-01] Reference
Stephenson has also mentioned in an interview that the mathic / extramuros dichotomy was a means for examining the differences between the literate and the aliterate, which he defines as those who can read but choose not to. From Wordnik.com. [Baby Got Books] Reference
Does Boomingham aliterate?. From Wordnik.com. [Cheeseburger Gothic » Thinking of changing my name.] Reference
You're aliterate. From Wordnik.com. [Walt at Random] Reference
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