While L'yhta is literate, none of her family is, and indeed most of my (rarely played) alts aren't. L'yhta learned after the Calamity by way of her master. The rest of her family has no need for that "fancy city knowledge" and indeed, had her story not taken her to Limsa Lominsa, she'd never have learned her letters at all.
As others have mentioned in this thread, literacy is indeed rare in Eorzea, according to Fernehalwes.
Successful adventurers likely fall into the "educated" category, but it doesn't seem to be a requirement unless you use magic (and even then, it would likely depend on your level of training and what type of magic you use; conjury is much more intuitive than, say, arcanima). When you sign up at the Adventurers' Guild initially, you just have to make your mark, and most Eorzeans can probably figure out that "the sign that looks like those funny squiggles means 'no entry'" and "the one with the two swords and a shield and some smoke is probably a forge."
As others have mentioned in this thread, literacy is indeed rare in Eorzea, according to Fernehalwes.
Quote:As I (think I may have) mentioned in a past post, literacy rates in Eorzea are quite low. The only people who can read/write are usually the educated writing for the educated. This causes them to use an overly complex jumble of jargon that sounds little like what is actually spoken in Eorzea. The spelling and lack of punctuation can be blamed on the fact that because there were so few people who could read or write, there was really no standardized set of rules. This left those who were literate to make up their own rules (which was pretty much what every educated man and woman did).
Successful adventurers likely fall into the "educated" category, but it doesn't seem to be a requirement unless you use magic (and even then, it would likely depend on your level of training and what type of magic you use; conjury is much more intuitive than, say, arcanima). When you sign up at the Adventurers' Guild initially, you just have to make your mark, and most Eorzeans can probably figure out that "the sign that looks like those funny squiggles means 'no entry'" and "the one with the two swords and a shield and some smoke is probably a forge."
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