"I mean literally literate".
They call it an "idiosyncratic, satirical attack in the form of discordant neo post-punk", and there is a similar sense of literate but degenerate transgression to FWF, with a penchant for juvenilia, if not outright scatology and coprophilia.
But if you want to become more literate in the conventional sense, you will want to choose books others have heard of.
Barack Obama is an elegant and literate man with a cosmopolitan sense of the world.
This should not be all that surprising, because many words embrace happily coexisting senses, such as literate, which means both 'able to read' and 'familiar with literature', and religious, which means both 'pertaining to religion' and 'obsessively thorough'.
Everyone in a literate society is literate in this sense; all know the nature, uses, and functions of writing even if they do not personally practice it.
Mr. Biggs made most of his pronouncements in his weekly research notes for clients of the firm, literate dispatches that displayed an offbeat sense of humor — some featured his conversations with his plumber — and often carried provocative theses.
The current generations, as digital natives, are literate not only in the conventional sense but in an innovative way which involves texts with static and dynamic images, gestures, audio, spoken language and written language.
Environmentally literate, socially engaged, and with a clear sense that contemporary consumerism is a warm bath of contradictions, Baird is the shopper that Patagonia wants to be in business for — whether or not it really is.
His work was not only witty but serious, not only biting but deeply informed, and artful in a painterly sense as well as a literate one; he was, in fact, beyond his pen and ink drawings, an accomplished painter.
