User blog comment:ChishioKunrin/Q&A questions for the December 19th livestream/@comment-9464517-20151216134626/@comment-9464517-20151216174040

@Shadow

I'm aware of the translation convention, but at the time that I wrote the comment, I thought it was still worth a mention since the scene was built around the joke of different words that sound very similar in English. In order for the scene to make sense from a diegetic perspective, the language of Remnant would therefore need to run suspiciously parallel to ours. Which is an easily settled issue not really worthy of discussion. It was a dumb question anyway.

Eh, makes sense. Is there any evidence for it that isn't just circumstantial, though? Perhaps the missing members of some of the teams attend the class at a different time, perhaps they were unwell, perhaps they were taking an urgent call from home, perhaps they were being spoken to by a different teacher, perhaps they were playing truant...

Once again, I would like to see greater mention be made of it. How were they stolen? Does the public know that they were stolen? If so, what is his reputation like now? If not, what methods did he use to keep it quiet? This isn't really a throwaway matter IMO, though I am glad that Winter did make an allusion to it.

If that's true, then why does Ozpin act like they were breaking protocol when he discusses some of the clandestine things that they have done in "Field Trip"? The manner in which he refers to their actions, despite being in a lighthearted tone, indicates that he and they all know that what they were doing was wrong.