Glossary entry (derived from question below)
English term or phrase:
dead copy
French translation:
original
Added to glossary by
Audrey Chopard-Lallier
May 18, 2010 10:46
13 yrs ago
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English term
The quality translation
Native in: French 
Works in: English to French, Spanish to French
dead copy
English to French
Art/Literary
Linguistics
typographie
Dans le "Chicago manual of Style", je dois traduire une phrase avec l'expression "dead" (or "foul") copy.
"...the proofreader must mark only the proofs, never the manuscript, which is now known as "dead" (or "foul") copy.
Quelqu'un aurait-il une id�e du terme utilis� en fran�ais ? Elle est la bienvenue... merci d'avance
"...the proofreader must mark only the proofs, never the manuscript, which is now known as "dead" (or "foul") copy.
Quelqu'un aurait-il une id�e du terme utilis� en fran�ais ? Elle est la bienvenue... merci d'avance
Proposed translations
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| 3 +1 | original |
GILLES MEUNIER
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| 3 | Ebauche/brouillon/projet/version préliminaire |
mimi 254
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| 2 | vieille épreuve |
Françoise Vogel
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Proposed translations
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original
dead copy
original n. m.
Définition :
Original typescript, as received by the typesetter which is sent to author with type proof.
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Note added at 4 mins (2010-05-18 10:51:12 GMT)
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Termium donne copie morte mais ça me semble un calque....
original n. m.
Définition :
Original typescript, as received by the typesetter which is sent to author with type proof.
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Note added at 4 mins (2010-05-18 10:51:12 GMT)
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Termium donne copie morte mais ça me semble un calque....
4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "Merci tout le monde... les autres réponses étant aussi intéressantes car documentées. Mais effectivement là je pense que c'est le terme qui convient le mieux."
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Françoise Vogel
Native in French
"la langue révérée" ...
Native in: French 
Works in: English to French, Italian to French, French to Italian, and 1 more.
Related KudoZ points
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vieille épreuve
cf. Harraps
Peer comment(s):
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Tony M
: don't think that would work iN Asker's context, where it is made clear that this is not an earlier proof, but the actual original ms.
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Ebauche/brouillon/projet/version préliminaire
definition dead copy - definition of dead copy from PublishingDictionary.com: a manuscript which has been keyboarded and typeset, and therefore is no longer needed.
www.publishingdictionary.com/definition/dead-copy.html -
Papers were lying about upon his desk, and he had commenced the foul copy of a letter which showed, by the numerous erasures, the trouble he had had in writing it.
Ten Years Later by Dumas, Alexandre
Definition "foul" copy
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Foul copy
synonyms: draft, first draft...
http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/Fo/Foul copy.html
http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1828&dat=19860603&id=u...
This Webster scene is called a 'foul copy,' writing that represents the au thor's original thinking on paper." The manuscript was found in an . ...
www.publishingdictionary.com/definition/dead-copy.html -
Papers were lying about upon his desk, and he had commenced the foul copy of a letter which showed, by the numerous erasures, the trouble he had had in writing it.
Ten Years Later by Dumas, Alexandre
Definition "foul" copy
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Foul copy
synonyms: draft, first draft...
http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/Fo/Foul copy.html
http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1828&dat=19860603&id=u...
This Webster scene is called a 'foul copy,' writing that represents the au thor's original thinking on paper." The manuscript was found in an . ...
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