Hi Mike,
The cases of self-educated work-men I know are native speakers of Hebrew and
read and write in Hebrew - a phonetic script, which they either learnt at home
(like my husband who was taught by his father as soon as he learnt to speak at
the age of 3-4) or at school.
Concerning English - linguistically it is actually a mutation, because it has
almost none of the morphological features typical of a indo-germanic language
(except for the 3rd pers. sing.).
Alisa
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