I would just like to apologise to the gentleman from Northern China in the closed forum 'SCMP and Domestic Helpers'. Unfortunately, the thread is now closed so I cannot edit my reply.
I mis-read his posting '99.999 percent of Chinese is literate' as saying '99.999 percent of Chinese il literate'. It's just as simple as that.
Sorry for the mis-read! I read the opposite meaning of the intention that 99.99 percent of Chinese are literate.
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It's awful to lock threads.