John,

Would you be including some of the world's largest education systems, where
roman numerals have never been part of the curriculum? 

There's a lot of smart people on this side of the world that probably
wouldn't know a roman numeral if it had a big neon sign on it saying "ROMAN
NUMERAL." It most certainly does not make them subliterate.

Some of them probably cannot even read this e-mail and will never need to,
let alone find it necessary to learn a dead number system that for some
unfathomable reason gets tacked on to the end of movie credits. 

Ron

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> I instead judge anyone who cannot read (and write) Roman numerals
> subliterate.
> 
> John Gilmore
> 

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