[PW] ? Italian phrase used by publishers: "condotta sul testo "

[Cramer, Jeff]

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Subject: Re: [PW] ? Italian phrase used by publishers: "condotta sul testo"

Quoting "Cramer, Jeff" <Jeff.Cramer at walden.org>:

> The following Italian phrase, ?condotta sul testo? seems to be used to say
> that a translation is ?based upon a text? although that does not seem to
> be a very literal translation. Could someone help me out here? How would
the
> following phrase translate?
>
>
>
>                ?Edizione italiana condotta sul testo critico edito da. . .


"Italian edition based upon the edited text published by..." Literally, 
"drawn from the edited text..."

(One panino, two panini, never a panini. Stouffer's television 
commercial is ungrammatical. If the grammar is wrong, how must the 
panini be?)

John Dyson

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