A student pilot successfully landed a plane by herself after her instructor jumped to his death mid-flight.

She said her instructor told her “You know what to do” before leaping from the aircraft.

The article shows a picture of the instructor next to an image of a small single engine cessna.

Comment reads: You could literally land a plane by yourself after your instructor jumps to his death mid-flight and they’d still use a picture of a man.

  • ZDL@lazysoci.alEnglish
    2·
    7 days ago

    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.

    • Gladaed@feddit.orgEnglish
      2·
      7 days ago

      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.

      • velma@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        7 days ago

        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?

        • Gladaed@feddit.orgEnglish
          1·
          7 days ago

          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.

          • velma@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            1·
            7 days ago

            I have to admit I was a little confused when you first replied to me as well. Probably just a language barrier thing.

            • Gladaed@feddit.orgEnglish
              1·
              7 days ago

              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.