Languages with an international scope are spoken and thought in many accents, and variations in spelling and syntax. Nothing wrong with that. I was talking to a (very pleasant) guy at a hardware store, Quincaillerie Azores, down in Little Portugal, due south of where I live, and we were chatting about Portuguese. I said I was far from fluent in Portuguese, but I picked some up working at a school where there were many Brazilian teenage and young adult participants. He said their Portuguese was so different, and I reminded him that it was the same in English, French and Spanish, among others. He said that even speaking with a guy looking for a part of something was challenging because the customer was from Madeira – another Portuguese island, not even across the Atlantic or Pacific.
I don’t think cats face such a problem, despite the distinctive twang of my Siamese and part-Siamese.
To be a bit more serious, literacy is essential for the emancipation of women. Even if they work essentially as housewives and mothers.