[ARSCLIST] FW: [ARSCLIST] Chinese copies- slang

[Aaron Z Snyder <azs@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> From: joe@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:sergei01@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Monday, August 14, 2006 12:49 PM
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> Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Chinese copies- slang
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> I've seen copies painted by hand of book covers and such done 
> by craftspersons in China, incredibly accurate to have been 
> done by hand
> 
> Not too long ago on CBS News Sunday Morning they featured a 
> story on persons n China who provide this service, apparently 
> for a quite reasonable fee
> 
> Joe Salerno
> Industrial Video Services
> PO Box 273405
> Houston Texas 77277-3405
> 
> Aaron Z Snyder wrote:
> > ...and from Webster's:
> > 
> > Main Entry: Chinese copy
> > Function: noun
> > : an exact imitation or duplicate *that includes defects* 
> [!] as well 
> > as desired qualities
> > 
> > Asterisks are my own.
> > Aaron Z
> > 
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> >> From the OED:
> >>
> >> *Chinese copy*, a precise drawing of a structure, piece of 
> apparatus, 
> >> etc., made from its appearance only without other information; a 
> >> slavishly exact copy (see also quot. 1920); **
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