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That is true. It could also be used by a "he", so there is a bit of ambiguity.
by tail_exchange 3y ago
That is true. It could also be used by a "he", so there is a bit of ambiguity.
- trgn 3y agoI'm really curious, where is the gendered information in "valedixit"? I feel like the proposed translation misses that romantic weight by keeping the gender ambiguous. What am I missing?
- tail_exchange 3y agoI don't speak Latin, but according to my short research (aka googling), it does not distinguish between third-person masculine and feminine. So the ambiguity is also present in Latin.
- _aavaa_ 3y agoThe thing missing is the context in which the sentence is used. From the comments on stackexchange: "if the context refers to this person enough to make it clear who "she" is, it should also make it clear who "he/she/it/they" is."
- trgn 3y agoThat makes a lot of sense, thank you.