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Originally Posted by AyumiAi
^ your talking about Cleopatra, Anthony, Caesar, Rome
wouldnt you just naturally use common sense to assume that Rom meant Rome? even to a non native speaking english person it should be pretty obvious
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I was just pointing out that I found it confusing when I read it, not that I didn't at some point understand that she meant "Rom" as "Rome". That I got. I was just trying to express how it confused me. It says she's from Germany, so I just went out on a limb and assumed English is not her first language. That being said, if I had the skill in a second language to explain Cleopatra to people on an Ayumi Hamasaki message board, I'd want a native speaker to tell me if I'd said something that was genuinely confusing. It really took me a second to realize "Rom" wasn't the end of one sentence and the start of another, but without a period. Example you can relate to: It doesn't confuse me when someone who means to say "YOU ARE" types "your" instead of "you're", but I have never seen the typo "Rom", so I thought I'd let her know my confusion if it should ever come up again.