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Bravo! I like your subtle sense of humor - i.e. not so subtle that it goes right over my head, but barely.



The humor flew right over my head. Care to explain?


I'm beginning to doubt if there was any humor there in the first place.

> When in Rome, do as the Romans do.

I mean if it had been a French city I could say that a pun about French Spacing is there in the joke. But Rome isn't a French city. So still very confused if and what the joke is.

French Spacing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_sentence_spacing#Fr...


My apology for a slow response, but I took the phrase 'when in Rome...' to be a reference to the scripto continua style seen on Roman monuments.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scriptio_continua


thanks for the reply!




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