In a period drama series set in China a few hundred years, there was a scene in the market place with one of the stalls displaying a written sign on the table, saying
代寫書信 / 代写书信
dài xiě shū xìn
"on-behalf-of write letter letter"
Letter-writing on [somebody's] behalf
The stallholder, usually a poor scholar who didn't have a practical skill like carpentry or farming, was trying to make money by writing letters for people who were illiterate.
How was the illiterate person supposed to understand the sign if s/he was illiterate in the first place??!!
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