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> In fact, in spite the rampant use of emoticons on the Internet, and generally subliterate ahX0r t41k!!!!! the nation's literacy rate, last I checked, is rising in proportion with the growth of the Internet. Maybe it'll dip down again once Internet bandwidth grows enough to accommodate sites that look more like television than magazines. But for the meantime, forcing people to communicate with written words, interjections and emoticons notwithstanding, seems to have a pretty positive impact on average literacy rates.