I'm Questioning My Literacy

I think the answer is dependent on whether or not you're familiar with any ironic blast furnaces.

 

Pernicious pedestrians are translucent when deceased, being denied peace after their demise due to their maleficent conduct according to some largely baseless yet prevalent superstitions.

 

I am illiterate in more languages than you are. (nyah, nyah). I am barely literate in English, but have yet to establish that level of proficiency in another tongue.

 

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No, they are not.

Reasoning:
An infinitesimal titanic bulk is not possible.
Vagrants usually don't posess immaculate cravats.
Laconic messages are never verbose.

Therefore, pernicious pedestrians cannot be transluscent.


There's four versions of the test (starting on page 282) and all four use the same answer key. That way, all four tests can be distributed randomly without making the graders' task more difficult.

There was a serious problem with this test, though, when given in Florida. Deaf and blind men possessing crippled seeing eye dogs invariably failed. But what else is new? Having a hard life was nothing new to those guys.

 

I think there is a contradiction in terms here.
If a pedestrian is translucent, he cannot be pernicious.

 

Especially if their blindness was caused by subjunctivitis.

 

And don't forget the extra tenses needed to deal with time traveling:

(Douglas Adams, H2G2).