«draft evader» – «уклонист (от армии/от призыва)» / Lingvo Live

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Nick Uzhovadded translation 5 years ago

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draft evader

уклонист (от армии/от призыва)

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One is a draft evader living in Canada; another died in Vietnam

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Один - уклонист и живёт в Канаде, второй погиб во Вьетнаме

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⁌ ULY ⁍added a comment 5 years ago

We actually call them DRAFT DODGERS

⁌ ULY ⁍added a comment 5 years ago

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=draft+dodger%2C+draft+evader&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cdraft%20dodger%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cdraft%20evader%3B%2Cc0 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=draft+dodger%2C+draft+evader&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cdraft%20dodger%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cdraft%20evader%3B%2Cc0

Nick Uzhovadded a comment 5 years ago

Looks like I am stuck in 1920s...

Nick Uzhovadded a comment 5 years ago

Улий, is it formal vs informal? 'Fare evader' seems very official while 'fare dodger' like slang

⁌ ULY ⁍added a comment 5 years ago

It’s neither formal nor informal. If you’ll look at the Ngram again, you’ll see DRAFT DODGER became popular in the 40’s and then during the Vietnam war in the 60’s it became the mot juste during a time when young men were going to Canada and staging demonstrations where they burned their draft cards in defiance of the draft. Today, it’s almost what we use exclusively for an evader.

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