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Thu 11 Feb, 2016 12:51 pm
Does "decorated military service" mean "military service in which he won many medals of honor"?
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Like other Beefeaters , Cameron served the minimum 22 years of decorated military service.
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@oristarA,
Its obvious , that in his 22 years , he had honourably finished a minimum number of G&T's while in uniform.
Yeomen Warders ("Beefeaters") at the Tower Of London (a historic castle) are recruited from former British Commonwealth military personnel who have served a minimum of 22 years, were senior NCOs and who have been awarded the "Long Service and Good Conduct Medal".
@oristarA,
Ori, I would most certainly respond, Yes. 'Cause an easy'n
But "G&T's while in uniform" still has me wondering
Edited to remark, thanks Tes
I got a vote-down! I guess it is because some people have taken against oristarA because, it is alleged, he is a professional translator posing as a student. I do not know what evidence there is to support that allegation. However, when considering this, I could not help remembering that when I was a student of French, I used to get paid freelance jobs translating material both ways, French to English and vice-versa. It was a way of boosting my finances as a student (I also drove a van for a pet food company, collecting dead horses from abbattoirs). I used to translate things like specialist hobby magazine articles on subjects such as dog or cat breeding, medal and coin collecting, freshwater fishing, as well as publicity material for smaller companies exporting from Britain to France, e.g. instruction leaflets for toasters, stoves. I particularly remember a gig I got translating the instruction manual for a cement mixer. So I can't really condemn him. The work I did helped my studies immensely.
@oristarA,
Quote:What does G&T stand for?
Gin and Tonic
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gin_and_tonic
Popular in the British Army during the Empire because of the anti-malarial properties of the quinine in Indian Tonic water.
@Tes yeux noirs,
Tes I think some of use might use the vote-down not as a criticism but to reduce the length of a listing
Ori certainly seems determined doesn't he. There's ample evidence however to substantiate that he's a real guy. Just recently when I had determined to avoid the hard ones he inquired of me whether I'd been on vacation
Incidentally do you translate into/from other tongues
@oristarA,
oristarA wrote:Does "decorated military service" mean "military service in which he won many medals of honor"?
Pretty much. "Award winning" would be a reasonable substitute for decorated.
I think some of the other people here have decided to play around with you with their answers, by the way. Hopefully they tire of posting nonsensical answers to the site.
@Tes yeux noirs,
Tes yeux noirs wrote:
I got a vote-down! I guess it is because some people have taken against oristarA because, it is alleged, he is a professional translator posing as a student. I do not know what evidence there is to support that allegation. However, when considering this, I could not help remembering that when I was a student of French, I used to get paid freelance jobs translating material both ways, French to English and vice-versa. It was a way of boosting my finances as a student (I also drove a van for a pet food company, collecting dead horses from abbattoirs). I used to translate things like specialist hobby magazine articles on subjects such as dog or cat breeding, medal and coin collecting, freshwater fishing, as well as publicity material for smaller companies exporting from Britain to France, e.g. instruction leaflets for toasters, stoves. I particularly remember a gig I got translating the instruction manual for a cement mixer. So I can't really condemn him. The work I did helped my studies immensely.
Good work, Tes.
I adopted a different strategy: we students help each other. I don't take translation as a job because I think if you want to make your work creative and original, you have to discover things yourself, while translation only deals with second-hand knowledge.
@Tes yeux noirs,
So what farmerman wrote is only joking?:
Quote:Its obvious , that in his 22 years , he had honourably finished a minimum number of G&T's while in uniform.
Yes, he was joking.
The joke is based on "Beefeater" also being a brand of gin.
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