> ローマ字ひろめ会 (Romaji Hirome Kai […]) Rōmaji, not romaji¹. The macron (long dash above) over the vowel indicates that the rō is a long vowel sound (roughly twice

> ローマ字ひろめ会 (Romaji Hirome Kai […]) Rōmaji, not romaji¹. The macron (long dash above) over the vowel indicates that the rō is a long vowel sound (roughly twice the length of, for example, the ma or ji following it). The purpose of romanization is to get text that can be pronounced roughly correct by someone not fluent in reading Japanese kanji and kana. Dampfkraft is knowledgeable on these topics, which makes the complete absence of macrons in his romanized words doubly conspicuous. 1: Unless you are using it as a loanword in English, but here it was a literal romanized transcription.