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Re:4chan: Beyond one billion by RobAtticus on Tuesday August 07, 2012 @10:23PM (#4353539)
My guess is that anyone who is literate has read Shakespeare at least once. I have to imagine my public schooling is not that different from the norm, and I read at least 3 works as required (Hamlet, Macbeth, and Romeo & Juliet) and some other others as my choice for assignments.

At least, in the western world. I don't know how popular Shakespeare is outside of that. On the other hand, I don't know how popular celebrity news is either.

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Re:4chan: Beyond one billion by ktizo on Wednesday August 08, 2012 @12:04PM (#4356301)
My guess is that anyone who is literate has read Shakespeare at least once.

That is one hell of an assumption. For one thing, most people who are literate, are not literate in English.

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