VL bush-vet

[Max Nemtsov]

thank you very much, Alice
I needed these confirmations ))
Mx

On 11.08.2013 1:25, alice wellintown wrote:
> http://articles.latimes.com/1988-11-11/entertainment/ca-882_1_distant-thunder 
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> 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>
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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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