Perhaps "semi-literate" would be more accurate, but a number of what are now corrupted Roman texts come to us from copyists in the 7th-9th centuries who couldn't proofread what they were copying.
In 17th century Russia, the Church Patriarch made a campaign of trying to correct the Russian translations of the Scriptures that had been muddled by illiterate Russian copyists. He was vilified for trying to be 'Latin' - the peasants preferred a "wrong" bible in Russian to a "correct" one based on some other language.
That's just two.
--Ian
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> --- In WorldofGlorantha_at_yahoogroups.com, "Ian" <ilikemonkeys.geo@> wrote:
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> Really? Could you give some examples?
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