VL bush-vet

[Ruth Flatscher]

I was first puzzled by this sentence, too, because my foreign-language mind
did not immediately recognize "vet" as an abbreviation for "veteran",
instead of "veterinarian"...

Max (and Mike, as well!) - some p-listers have said it before, and I'll
have to take the same line: I think such translation-related issues are a
great enrichment of this mailing list, stimulating in-depth re-reading and
interesting discussions, and often different people come up with matching
or complementary pieces of the puzzle we're all trying to solve, one or the
other enjoyable way. I hope you will keep us posted with such questions,
we'll bear you with delight...

Ruth


On 10 August 2013 22:04, Charles Albert <cfalbert at gmail.com> wrote:

> I suspect that "bush-vet" refers to someone who was actually "in the
> field" (having seen combat) as opposed to just being on base.
>
> love,
> cfa
>
>
> On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 3:01 PM, Max Nemtsov <max.nemtsov at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Dear colleagues,
>> it so happened that instead of translating V. I was after all
>> commissioned to translate Vineland first, then V.
>> so please bear with me if i ask some dumb questions, will you?
>>
>> Isaiah, in their greeting, wanted to slap and dap, having always =20
>> somehow believed that Zoyd had seen combat in Vietnam. Some of this =20
>> was bush-vet and jailyard moves Zoyd recognized, some was private =20
>> choreography he couldn't keep up with, though he tried, Isaiah =20
>> throughout humming Jimi Hendrix's "Purple Haze." "Hey, so, Mr. =20
>> Wheeler," Isaiah at last, "how you doing?"
>> Vineland, pg. 18
>>
>> explain "bush-vet"?
>> with all my gratitude,
>> Mx
>>
>
>


-- 
Mag. Ruth Flatscher
Department of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, University of Vienna
Institute of Botany, University of Innsbruck
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