97%?is that just people who can spell their own name? Still much higher than I would have thought
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techierob,
Wed 21 Sep 2005, 21:44,
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It means at least 7 million people over 15 years oldcan not read and write. That is a lot!
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RedWine President of the S.C.U.M.,
Wed 21 Sep 2005, 21:47,
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still an impressive statisticseeing as the bulk of the population are going to be a bunch of dungaree-wearing, cousin-marrying god-botherers who live in log cabins, eat dogs, own guns and fuck handfuls of their own shit..
..allegedly
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techierob,
Wed 21 Sep 2005, 21:52,
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YesI thought that was high too. Still, depends how you define literacy as you say.
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in vino veritas,
Wed 21 Sep 2005, 21:48,
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