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People under the age of 80 in America and England are only going to come across "cum" in this kind of context as part of Latin phrases like "magna cum laude" during the occasional college or upper-class private school graduation ceremony, otherwise they only happen across it with the meaning of semen or sexual climax. People with English as a second language also usually end up learning only those sexual meanings when self-taught or being taught by a native speaker. 90% is an exaggeration, but it's only an exaggeration by rounding, the actual percentage is somewhere between 85~89% and may be higher if you include the less-than-fluent speakers that only know broken English or a heavily localized dialect.Yes, that was my point. It's what "linebreak" means.
I really doubt this. Most ppl are somewhat fluent in english, and knows fully well what that phrase means. More reasonable to invert your statistics to be that 10% might not.
Instead, I find it much more likely that people are reacting because of the unfortunate linebreak/whitespace, making it read really wonky.
What? Is it not more sensible with the setting (high-society), than something involving orphan mc's? After all, it's generally not used outside slightly more formal language.