Today we will make a small revision of the alphabet and a small playing. Take a little pencil and a small paper friends, I begin.
So there are 26 letters in the alphabet, which are as follows: abcdefghijklmnopqrstu vwxyz-(you can sing the alphabet song together, it helps to understand). These 26 letters can be arranged to form words. We can for example place a''d''and''e''side by side and that gives''die''. If we add a''c'', an''h''another''e'', a''t''and finally''s'', we get a word''waste .'' You follow me so far? No? Okay, so let's take another example. If the agency letrtes''p'',''a'',''w'',''i'',''e''''r''and''s'', it gets the word''papers''! Easy as pie eh? These are two distinct words that do not go together, because between you and me, the paper is not waste, is not it?
So why, when I go to nimportequelle subway station, I see trash, with the word WASTE writes well demonstrated above, filled to the brim with newspapers? The bins usually coexist very near the recycling bins with the word written on PAPER the subway. So I told myself that the physical distance between the two was not the reason why people were throwing papers in the trash. What can push them to do so, I asked myself? And suddenly I understood. It is the fault of inalphabétisation!
According to Statistics Canada, two in five adults of working age have difficulty understanding what they read 42% of all Canadian adults of working age (16-65 years) have difficulty meet the demands of life in society. In Quebec, this proportion rises to one in two. (Source: http://www.laporteouverte.info/marioraymond.2010.09.06.html)
Here! All illiterate Quebec take the subway every morning and evening! This would explain why the bins are full of newspapers .... but why no illiterates would read a newspaper ... um ... maybe for images? Another mystery to demystify!
short, I've now learned two new words, or''WASTE''and''paper''. Try to remember, because I might be near you in the subway and watching you ....
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