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Grunt Slang in Vietnam

2020-02-04 History
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Book Synopsis Grunt Slang in Vietnam by : Gordon L. Rottman

Download or read book Grunt Slang in Vietnam written by Gordon L. Rottman. This book was released on 2020-02-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look at how combat, culture, and military tradition influenced soldiers’ language in Vietnam from the award-winning, USA Today–bestselling author. The slang, or unique vocabulary, of the soldiers and marines serving in Vietnam, was a mishmash of words and phrases whose origins reached back to the Korean War, World War II, and even earlier. Additionally, it was influenced by the United States’ rapidly changing protest culture, ideological and poetical doctrine, ethical and cultural conflicts, racialism, and drug culture. This “slanguage” was rendered even more complex by the Pidgin Vietnamese-English spoken by Americans and Vietnamese alike. But perhaps most importantly, it reflected the soldiers’ actual daily lives, played out in the jungles, swamps, and hills of Vietnam.

Vietnam War Slang

2014-07-25 Foreign Language Study
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Release : 2014-07-25
Genre : Foreign Language Study
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Book Synopsis Vietnam War Slang by : Tom Dalzell

Download or read book Vietnam War Slang written by Tom Dalzell. This book was released on 2014-07-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2014, the US marks the 50th anniversary of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, the basis for the Johnson administration’s escalation of American military involvement in Southeast Asia and war against North Vietnam. Vietnam War Slang outlines the context behind the slang used by members of the United States Armed Forces during the Vietnam War. Troops facing and inflicting death display a high degree of linguistic creativity. Vietnam was the last American war fought by an army with conscripts, and their involuntary participation in the war added a dimension to the language. War has always been an incubator for slang; it is brutal, and brutality demands a vocabulary to describe what we don’t encounter in peacetime civilian life. Furthermore, such language serves to create an intense bond between comrades in the armed forces, helping them to support the heavy burdens of war. The troops in Vietnam faced the usual demands of war, as well as several that were unique to Vietnam – a murky political basis for the war, widespread corruption in the ruling government, untraditional guerilla warfare, an unpredictable civilian population in Vietnam, and a growing lack of popular support for the war back in the US. For all these reasons, the language of those who fought in Vietnam was a vivid reflection of life in wartime. Vietnam War Slang lays out the definitive record of the lexicon of Americans who fought in the Vietnam War. Assuming no prior knowledge, it presents around 2000 headwords, with each entry divided into sections giving parts of speech, definitions, glosses, the countries of origin, dates of earliest known citations, and citations. It will be an essential resource for Vietnam veterans and their families, students and readers of history, and anyone interested in the principles underpinning the development of slang.

Words of the Vietnam War

1990 History
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Release : 1990
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Book Synopsis Words of the Vietnam War by : Gregory R. Clark

Download or read book Words of the Vietnam War written by Gregory R. Clark. This book was released on 1990. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cu Chi, (body bag), Shit-hook (Chinook helicopter), dink (Vietnamese slang for a G.I.), slope (G.I. slang for a Vietnamese), hose (kill), boom-boom (what's done in a tapioca mill, or whorehouse), Mike-Juliet (marijuana), pogey bait, DO-28, C-2A, L Zed (Aussie for landing zone), rat-turds (oak leaf clusters), thousand yard stare, Samozaryadnyi karabin (Soviet rifle), guerre a outrance (French war to the end--the viewpoint of the North): these and the 10,000 others in this dictionary are the words of the Vietnam era. They were spoken by ground pounders in the boonies and by peaceniks on U.S. campuses, by hawks, doves, Victor Charlies and hoi chanhs, Chinese advisors and the Muong people of the Central Highlands. The period covered is primarily 1963-1975, but there are terms included from as early as 1945 and as late as 1987.

Slang and Jargon of the Vietnam War

1985 Jargon (Terminology)
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Release : 1985
Genre : Jargon (Terminology)
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Book Synopsis Slang and Jargon of the Vietnam War by : Steven B. Rumsey

Download or read book Slang and Jargon of the Vietnam War written by Steven B. Rumsey. This book was released on 1985. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Grunts

1976 History
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Release : 1976
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Book Synopsis The Grunts by : Charles R. Anderson

Download or read book The Grunts written by Charles R. Anderson. This book was released on 1976. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 'grunts' are the line infantry, the men who actually fought the war in Vietnam. Who humped up one worthless hill after another, searching for an elusive enemy. Who were as likely to be killed by heat stroke or 'friendly fire' as Viet Cong.

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