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> 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?
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What is this 英語だと implying?
Because I cannot add comment, I just try and ask you here. I am not sure what
is the sentence before `日本語と違って`, I just best guess your whole sentence.

Is this sentence rightfully translated? `Different from Japanese, you can
easily tell the difference (gender) from just the letters/words (of names) in
English.`

I think the part of にくい is misinterpreted in the English translation. Because:

> 区別もつきにくいし
>

>> 区別がつく usage => add( and show) the difference

>>

>> 区別がつきにくい => difficult to add( and show) the difference

>
> Explanation of にくい
>

>> verb + にくい => adding "difficult" meaning to the action

>>

>> eg. 食べにくい => eg. (some form of food) **is difficult to eat** (using
chopsticks)

>
> So I think the meaning is
>

>> Different from Japanese, it is still hard to tell/add the difference by
just adding words/letters (if it is) in English.

update: `つく`は自動詞です my previous mistake makde it with を`つく`, please note.
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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
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