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  • #16
    Wow, no-one English actually responded.
    Jon Miller: MikeH speaks the truth
    Jon Miller: MikeH is a shockingly revolting dolt and a masturbatory urine-reeking sideshow freak whose word is as valuable as an aging cow paddy.
    We've got both kinds

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    • #17
      "I interned..." would be the way to go.
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      "One day if I do go to heaven, I'm going to do what every San Franciscan does who goes to heaven - I'll look around and say, 'It ain't bad, but it ain't San Francisco.'" - Herb Caen, 1996
      "If God, as they say, is homophobic, I wouldn't worship that God." - Archbishop Desmond Tutu
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      • #18
        "I was drafted."

        If I understand correctly national service is a replacement for the military draft so you were drafted.
        Try http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate.

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        • #19
          Er. It was voluntary.
          Click here if you're having trouble sleeping.
          "We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones." - François de La Rochefoucauld

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          • #20
            "I participated in a VSY..."
            "I work in IT so I'd be buggered without a computer" - Words of wisdom from Provost Harrison
            "You can be wrong AND jewish" - Wiglaf :love:

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            • #21
              I served the service.
              Blah

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              • #22
                Serve the servaaaaaants, oh no.
                Click here if you're having trouble sleeping.
                "We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones." - François de La Rochefoucauld

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                • #23
                  "I kicked the VSY's ass" is also acceptable.
                  "The French caused the war [Persian Gulf war, 1991]" - Ned
                  "you people who bash Bush have no appreciation for one of the great presidents in our history." - Ned
                  "I wish I had gay sex in the boy scouts" - Dissident

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                  • #24
                    Ah...if it was a "military type" of assignment, then yes - "I served" is definately the term you are looking for. The same can be said when it comes to assignments within the Red Cross, Doctors Without Borders, etc.
                    ____________________________
                    "One day if I do go to heaven, I'm going to do what every San Franciscan does who goes to heaven - I'll look around and say, 'It ain't bad, but it ain't San Francisco.'" - Herb Caen, 1996
                    "If God, as they say, is homophobic, I wouldn't worship that God." - Archbishop Desmond Tutu
                    ____________________________

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                    • #25
                      As well as waitering.
                      Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.
                      "Hating America is something best left to Mobius. He is an expert Yank hater.
                      He also hates Texans and Australians, he does diversify." ~ Braindead

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                      • #26
                        Originally posted by SlowwHand
                        As well as waitering.
                        Touche' Sloww!
                        ____________________________
                        "One day if I do go to heaven, I'm going to do what every San Franciscan does who goes to heaven - I'll look around and say, 'It ain't bad, but it ain't San Francisco.'" - Herb Caen, 1996
                        "If God, as they say, is homophobic, I wouldn't worship that God." - Archbishop Desmond Tutu
                        ____________________________

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                        • #27
                          Originally posted by Wittlich
                          The same can be said when it comes to assignments within the Red Cross, Doctors Without Borders, etc.
                          Do you actually call it "Doctors without borders"? I've only ever heard of "Médecins sans frontières" which I presume is the same thing. Poor French language.
                          One day Canada will rule the world, and then we'll all be sorry.

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                          • #28
                            Originally posted by Dauphin
                            Do you actually call it "Doctors without borders"?

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                            • #29
                              "Interned" if it was formal training (like an architect working for free at an achitectural firm to gain experience).

                              "Volunteered" if it was less formal (like a nurse working with Habitat for Humanity building houses to be a nice person).

                              Both verbs take the preposition "with" if you include the organization:

                              "I volunteered with Habitat for Humanity."

                              Volunteer takes "for" if you are talking about a particular role:

                              "I volunteered for the post of treasurer at the Bunko club."

                              -Native English speaker
                              Got my new computer!!!!

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                              • #30
                                Originally posted by Dauphin


                                Do you actually call it "Doctors without borders"? I've only ever heard of "Médecins sans frontières" which I presume is the same thing. Poor French language.
                                I call it Medecins sans frontieres, but most americans probably use the former ... what would you have them call it in english?
                                <Reverend> IRC is just multiplayer notepad.
                                I like your SNOOPY POSTER! - While you Wait quote.

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