Glossary entry (derived from question below)
English term or phrase:
pledging.
English answer:
swearing an oath
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Annika Neudecker
Aug 3, 2004 19:01
19 yrs ago
English term
Lili Fleischer
...when he started pledging.
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If pledge Susan is "Aspirante Susan", how do you translate
"During pledging...."
Thank you very much.
If pledge Susan is "Aspirante Susan", how do you translate
"During pledging...."
Thank you very much.
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Swearing an oath
Lili, do you just need an English explanation?
"Pledging" in a fraternity means to swear an oath, to "pledge allegiance", for example, means to swear that one is going to be devoted or faithful to something...
During pledging: While swearing an oath (promising to be faithful to the fraternity)
"Pledging" in a fraternity means to swear an oath, to "pledge allegiance", for example, means to swear that one is going to be devoted or faithful to something...
During pledging: While swearing an oath (promising to be faithful to the fraternity)
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Refugio
: If you believe that "swearing an oath" is equivalent to US fraternity "pledging", how do you account for the fact that it takes a week ("pledge week")?
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I agree. "Pledging" to become a member of a fraternity/sorority is often an ordeal. But it still doesn't negate the fact that is "swearing an oath" - regardless of whether it's a good or bad thing the prospective members are swearing to.
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chica nueva
: during the pledging ceremony/process
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Mikhail Kropotov
: I agree with Ruth's interpretation. pledging in a fraternity/sorority is the process of initiation into the society (read 'a humiliating and degrading act of conformism')
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Yes, it is. "Pledging" to become a member of a fraternity/sorority is often a humiliating ordeal and an act of conformism. But it is still "swearing an oath" regardless of whether it's a good or bad thing the prospective members are swearing to.
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At the time of pledging
I don't think we are talking about oaths or swearing here. Pledge also means "something that you give as a sign that you will keep a promise" I pledge my car for a loan. I am pledging my diamond ring for $5,000 etc...etc... The 'Pledge' meaning oath or swearing is a noun!
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eccotraduttrice
: Pledge has a very specific meaning when referring to a fraternity ro sorority, different from its normal use.
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English term (edited):
pledging
pagar la novatada / gastar novatadas
Assuming, from your other question on oath paddle, that you want the Spanish.
See:
http://remus.rutgers.edu/~tiberias/zbt/nopledge.htm
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Another interesting little sideline:
<<Cartoonist Garry Trudeau, who has skewered politicians for decades in his comic strip \"Doonesbury,\" tells Rolling Stone magazine he remembers Yale classmate George W. Bush as \"just another sarcastic preppy who gave people nicknames and arranged for keg deliveries.\"
Trudeau attended Yale University with Bush in the late 1960s and served with him on a dormitory social committee.
\"Even then he had clearly awesome social skills,\" Trudeau said. \"He could also make you feel extremely uncomfortable ... He was extremely skilled at controlling people and outcomes in that way. Little bits of perfectly placed humiliation.\"
Trudeau said he penned his very first cartoon to illustrate an article in the Yale Daily News on Bush and allegations that his fraternity, DKE, had hazed incoming pledges by branding them with an iron.
The article in the campus paper prompted The New York Times to interview Bush, who was a senior that year. Trudeau recalled that Bush told the Times \"it was just a coat hanger, and ... it didn\'t hurt any more than a cigarette burn.\"
\"It does put one in mind of what his views on torture might be today,\" Trudeau said.>>
See:
http://remus.rutgers.edu/~tiberias/zbt/nopledge.htm
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Note added at 5 days (2004-08-08 19:30:55 GMT) Post-grading
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Another interesting little sideline:
<<Cartoonist Garry Trudeau, who has skewered politicians for decades in his comic strip \"Doonesbury,\" tells Rolling Stone magazine he remembers Yale classmate George W. Bush as \"just another sarcastic preppy who gave people nicknames and arranged for keg deliveries.\"
Trudeau attended Yale University with Bush in the late 1960s and served with him on a dormitory social committee.
\"Even then he had clearly awesome social skills,\" Trudeau said. \"He could also make you feel extremely uncomfortable ... He was extremely skilled at controlling people and outcomes in that way. Little bits of perfectly placed humiliation.\"
Trudeau said he penned his very first cartoon to illustrate an article in the Yale Daily News on Bush and allegations that his fraternity, DKE, had hazed incoming pledges by branding them with an iron.
The article in the campus paper prompted The New York Times to interview Bush, who was a senior that year. Trudeau recalled that Bush told the Times \"it was just a coat hanger, and ... it didn\'t hurt any more than a cigarette burn.\"
\"It does put one in mind of what his views on torture might be today,\" Trudeau said.>>
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