Post #3860484
2026-07-16 13:46 UTC
> Eine Flugschülerin landete erfolgreich ein Flugzeug, nachdem ihr Fluglehrer mitten im Flug in den Tod gesprungen war. Sie sagte, ihr Fluglehrer habe ihr noch gesagt: „Du weißt, was zu tun ist“, bevor er aus dem Flugzeug sprang.
Oh, look! It is equally clear here that the student was a woman and the instructor was a man! It seems that you can't really hide behind German as an excuse, can you? Or did I mistranslate this badly? (I'm a bit rusty in German.)
Here is a little bit of a tip: if your grasp of a language is weak, perhaps you shouldn't comment on the clarity of speech of a native speaker of said language. It really isn't a good look. It's pretty much why I won't correct or criticize the grammar of French or Mandarin speakers because, well, my command of these is not strong enough to be certain.
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@Gladaed@feddit.org 2026-07-16 14:05
You clearly didn’t read what I wrote with enough attention to detail. I did not argue that the bit of text didn’t have the information, but that it was encoded only in pronouns and not subject of the post. And encoding gender in pronouns does not work in German. If you had used the correct translation for student which is Student it would have been less clear. Coed (Student with female pronouns) is the word for Studentin. You wouldn’t translate Bäckerin as bakress, I sincerely hope.