What is this 英語だと implying?


> 日本語と違って、英語だと文字だけじゃ区別もつきにくいし。
>
> Different from Japanese, you can easily tell the difference (gender) from
> just the letters/words (of names) in English.

I'm trying to understand why this is translated as "you can't necessarily tell
gender through Japanese text like you can in English."

Note that it refers to gender by Japanese names.

But why にくい? Isn't this talking about English with 英語だと? Shouldn't it be やすい
instead?

And also what is this つく? is it 吐く?




日本語と違って、英語だと文字だけじゃ区別もつきにくいし。  
This sentence says

> Unlike in Japanese, in English it is difficult to tell (gender) just from
> the characters (letters) used (in a name).

So the original translation was wrong. (Maybe they meant to say "can't?")  
As an example, take the name Akira. A name used more for males than females,
but there are plenty of examples of both. For males, it could be written
昭、昌、晃、彰、章、朗 and so on, but writing it like 晶 and あきら would probably make most
people think the person is female. Obviously, this information is lost when
written with the alphabet.

And, yes, it is talking about English with 英語だと, the problem was with the
translation.

As far as 区別もつく goes, 付く would be the kanji for that, though it is usually
written in hiragana. [See here for usage
frequency](http://nlb.ninjal.ac.jp/headword/N.02309/)

区別がつく= 209

区別が付く= 15




日本語と違って、英語だと文字だけじゃ区別もつきにくいし。  
This sentence says

> Unlike in Japanese, in English it is difficult to tell (gender) just from
> the characters (letters) used (in a name).

So the original translation was wrong. (Maybe they meant to say "can't?")  
As an example, take the name Akira. A name used more for males than females,
but there are plenty of examples of both. For males, it could be written
昭、昌、晃、彰、章、朗 and so on, but writing it like 晶 and あきら would probably make most
people think the person is female. Obviously, this information is lost when
written with the alphabet.

And, yes, it is talking about English with 英語だと, the problem was with the
translation.

As far as 区別もつく goes, 付く would be the kanji for that, though it is usually
written in hiragana. [See here for usage
frequency](http://nlb.ninjal.ac.jp/headword/N.02309/)

区別がつく= 209

区別が付く= 15

