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English term or phrase:	dead copy
French translation:	original
Entered by:	Audrey Chopard-Lallier

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10:46 May 18, 2010

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Art/Literary - Linguistics / typographie

English term or phrase: dead copy

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

Audrey Chopard-Lallier KudoZ activity Questions: 49 (none open) (1 without valid answers) Answers: 9
Local time: 14:31

original

Explanation:
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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Termium donne copie morte mais ça me semble un calque....

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GILLES MEUNIER
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Local time: 14:31

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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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original

GILLES MEUNIER

Ebauche/brouillon/projet/version préliminaire

mimi 254

vieille épreuve

Françoise Vogel

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original

GILLES MEUNIER
France
Local time: 14:31
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French
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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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vieille épreuve

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cf. Harraps

Françoise Vogel
Local time: 14:31
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French
PRO pts in category: 3

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Ebauche/brouillon/projet/version préliminaire

Explanation:
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 . ...

mimi 254
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