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After ORD, NSF Vocation = Reservist Vocation?

• felzus

  7 Oct 12, 22:45

  Trained in Armour as a sect/veh comm. So likely sect comm in reservist?

• felzus

  8 Oct 12, 17:54

  Btw, i am an admin spec.

• Rednano

  8 Oct 12, 20:36

  AH THEN?/ ARBO/ARBUTHEN 
  
  The Singlish equivalent for "of course" or "duh!". "Ah then?" is the sarcastic response given to blindingly obvious questions or statements. Somehow, it evolved into "arbuthen" sometime during the 1980's (possibly a deliberate mispronunciation of "Ah, but then?"), and has now become "arbo".
  
  For example,
  
  Question: "After ORD, our NSF vocation is also our reservist ICT vocation?"
  
  Answer: "AH THEN?/ ARBO/ ARBUTHEN, then NS train us for a particular vocation for fark?"