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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.
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.
May I politely ask why this has become a topic of conversation here? There's nothing in German in the post, no one is speaking German in the comments - why would the post have to cater to the way you read pronouns in German?
It doesn't. And I have no idea why they argue that way. I just said that I didn't read the pronouns as being gender specific. This might be to do with my nationality and hence warped perception of language.
I just said that I didn't read it as being gendered at first. And get attacked for it.
I have to admit I was a little confused when you first replied to me as well. Probably just a language barrier thing.
What I tried to say was that you don't need to read the pronouns in the post to understand the meaning. Hence I didn't. I don't know how to explain this in plain English.
Aaaahhhhh that makes more sense. Thanks for explaining it again