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Can you please tell me the meaning of this phrase anything but illiterate in this sentence: Those who work In the new medi re anything but illiterate .
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Can you please tell me the meaning of this phrase anything but illiterate in this sentence: Those who work In the new medi re anything but illiterate .
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It means that they are not illiterate. They might be many other things, but they are not illiterate.
 

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Can you please tell me the meaning of [STRIKE]this[/STRIKE] the phrase "anything but illiterate" in this sentence:
Those who work [STRIKE]In[/STRIKE] in the new media are anything but illiterate.
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Please see my amendments to your post above. I'm not sure if the sentence was supposed to say "new media" or "news media" so I left it as "new". It would be interesting to know what the "new media" is though.
 

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Can you please tell me the meaning of this phrase anything but illiterate in this sentence: Those who work In the new medi re anything but illiterate.

I would say that the writer thinks they are highly literate, though it is likely that this is in response to criticisms of illiteracy made somewhere.
 
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