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A near impossible literacy test Louisiana used to suppress the black vote

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243 points rcarmo | 1 comments | 21 Oct 24 21:29 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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saagarjha ◴[21 Oct 24 23:07 UTC] No.41909496[source]▶
I’m curious if anyone has the solutions to these.
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tptacek ◴[21 Oct 24 23:17 UTC] No.41909559[source]▶
What's the right answer to "Write down on the line provided, what you read in the triangle below"? The triangle contains "Paris in the spring".
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tilt_error ◴[21 Oct 24 23:20 UTC] No.41909576[source]▶
Actually: Paris in the the spring

'the' comes twice

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jampekka ◴[21 Oct 24 23:24 UTC] No.41909603[source]▶
That's diabolical. But it's not certain if even that's correct. Depends on how the comma should be interpreted.
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1. kelnos ◴[21 Oct 24 23:28 UTC] No.41909624{3}[source]▶
And the person who answered wrote the last two words such that they're not "on the line provided", so regardless of which phrase they're supposed to write, they got the question wrong.

Assuming they did write the correct thing, and assuming the test administrator would be unusually generous about the placement of the words, they still got it wrong: they left off the colon at the end.