VL bush-vet

[alice wellintown]

http://www.nytimes.com/1986/05/11/us/for-vietnam-veterans-florida-wood-is-home.html


On Saturday, August 10, 2013, Ruth Flatscher wrote:

> 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<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', '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<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', '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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