VL bush-vet

[alice wellintown]

http://articles.latimes.com/1988-11-11/entertainment/ca-882_1_distant-thunder



On Saturday, August 10, 2013, alice wellintown wrote:

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> http://www.nytimes.com/1986/05/11/us/for-vietnam-veterans-florida-wood-is-home.html
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> On Saturday, August 10, 2013, Ruth Flatscher wrote:
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>> 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"...
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>> 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...
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>> Ruth
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>> On 10 August 2013 22:04, Charles Albert <cfalbert at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> I suspect that "bush-vet" refers to someone who was actually "in the
>>> field" (having seen combat) as opposed to just being on base.
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>>> love,
>>> cfa
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>>> On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 3:01 PM, Max Nemtsov <max.nemtsov at gmail.com>wrote:
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>>>> 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?
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>>>> 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
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>>>> explain "bush-vet"?
>>>> with all my gratitude,
>>>> Mx
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>> --
>> Mag. Ruth Flatscher
>> Department of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, University of Vienna
>> Institute of Botany, University of Innsbruck
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