[General] "One person two letters" OR "two persons one letter each"?

[yagigoyaneko]

A call for a job position requires
"Two reference letters written by a scientist in related field."

I thought they want me to have "one person writes two letters". But they said no. "Two persons should write a letter separately".

Is there any chance to justify their claim? It's a sentence in a job call for a research institute in Japan. I only prepared two letters from one person, but they said I am failed. There was a japanese text as well, but it was more vague so that I referred the english part.

The person who wrote the call is actually bad at english. And I am at this level.

 

[5jj]

"Two reference letters written by a scientist in related field."

The intended meaning is not clear.

 

[yagigoyaneko]

The intended meaning is not clear.

All right, it seems not only their fault, then. Thanks.

 

[Tdol]

The English may not be too clear, but logic favours the two people writing a letter each view. If they needed two copies, they'd probably say 2 copies of a letter....

 

[Barb_D]

I agree that "by a scientist" could imply that you need only one person, but as Tdol says, logic leads you to the intended meaning.