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A term comprised of the English words illiterate(not able to read or write) and bastard(one not knowing their biological father). It started circulation when literate people referred to those unable to read or write properly in a derrogatory way.

People whom this term refers to can be easily identified in the way they speak, write, read, and type. Symtoms include