>>Everyone one else me included read lines as lines.
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>That's why communication is so exciting -- different understandings for the same wording -- cultural difference can play a role, all this is common sense.

[shrug] I've encountered a few situations where someone was asking about how to select a row in a spreadsheet, and after several minutes suggesting the solution (to the question as asked) and response of "No, no, that's not what I was asking" -- I decided to ask "do you mean vertical or horizontal?" (and further had to rephrase that as "up-and-down" or "side-to-side"). Turned out the person was asking about how to select a column...
BTW, if you want to get confused --- ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_lines )