GR translation: Seaman Bodine

[Bekah]

Seaman is one of the lowest rates  in the Navy (not rank).   It's not a name but used as a title.   Petty Officer Jones or Seaman Bodine.    In the army it might be like  Private Ryan or Sergeant Preston,  

Bek
whose dad and son and  late hubby were all seamen of some sort - 


On Jul 14, 2013, at 2:49 AM, jochen stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com> wrote:

> Are you sure? I mean, you wouldn't translate that in any other language as well, as you wouldn't translate Colonel, for example.
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> 2013/7/14 Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
> The published translation treated "Seaman" as Bodine's first name.  That can't be right, can it?  I thought I'd ask just to be absolutely sure, since I'm often wrong.
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