Mx.Trinity
Pro Stranger
Actually you perfectly illustrated what I think is the big misconception with the words literacry and illiteracy. For a lot of the people that use the latter ( illiteracy/illiterate ) to belittle others what they're really talking about is GRAMMAR.
Like they basically see people who they feel don't pay the proper amount of attention to proper grammar and they assume this means the people are illiterate. And alternately they pride themselves on proper grammar and they think this makes them more literate than others.
When literacy/illiteracy has nothing to do with grammar. It is really only related to the basic ability to either read or write. You don't have to do either of those things perfectly to be considered literate. You don't have to be able to pass some kind of literacy test that proves you can follow all the rules of grammar or what have you. No if you can read a book or write something in a manner that is understandable to others than your literate.
Further the original point was more an issue of different writing styles entirely. A script based roleplay is going to have different writing rules than a novel length one.That doesn't mean that just because it's different it is automatically less literate. That would be like if I said someone who writes cookbooks is less literate than someone who writes fantasy novels. The two have nothing to do with one another so it's silly to make the comparison in the first place.
Mmm.... I mean... this is from Merriam-Webster:
illiterate
violating approved patterns of speaking and writing - most of the messages left on the Web site's bulletin board are illiterate
- Synonyms ungrammatical
- Related Words unidiomatic; nonstandard, substandard
- Near Antonyms idiomatic
- Antonyms grammatical
That's, of course, just my opinion