Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> Presumably this is why all schoolchildren [in the UK at least] have 
> Shakespear inflicted upon them as a mandatory component of their 
> education. I still can't figure out what good it's supposed to do.

  It's good because it's an expression of social culture.

> Certainly I can understand the importance of social interaction. But 
> "culture" always seemed to me to involve lots of pretensious people 
> standing around whaffling something incomprehensible about a bend lump 
> of metal painted green or something...

  You have a twisted notion of the term "culture". Culture is much more
mundane than that.

  For example, if someone greets you, you greet back. That's part of
your culture.

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                                                          - Warp

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