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00:23 Jan 13, 2019 |
French to English translations [PRO] Social Sciences - Education / Pedagogy | |||||||
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| Selected response from: Charles Davis Spain Local time: 03:07 | ||||||
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4 +3 | 288/300-page / 3-quire register |
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288/300-page / 3-quire register Explanation: "Registre" here means a register, a hard-cover book for record-keeping, A4 size or thereabouts. "Main" means quire: i.e., a twentieth of a ream, 24 or 25 sheets of paper. In practice this means double-page-size sheets, which are folded once, producing a total of 96 or 100 pages: "main 2. d. α) PAPET. Ensemble de vingt-cinq feuilles de papier formant la vingtième partie de la rame." http://www.cnrtl.fr/definition/main "quire : a collection of 24 or sometimes 25 sheets of paper of the same size and quality : one twentieth of a ream" https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/quire So a "registre 3 mains" is a "3-quire register". But nobody seems to use that expression these days, except in India (and indeed "main" is becoming old-fashioned too), so I think you'd better give the number of pages. In French, too, it seems to be sometimes 24 and sometimes 25 sheets, producing either 96 or 100 pages, so 3 "mains" means either 288 or 300 pages. Here's an examples of each, the first from France and the second from Morocco: "L'essentiel registre pour consigner toutes vos informations. [...] Contenu : 300 pages, 3 mains foliotées (3x100 pages). Papier 80g/m2 blanc.Couverture : toile." https://www.officedepot.fr/mb/skupage.do?skuid=6902217 "REGISTRE 3 MAINS -EXPRESS OFFICE 5*5 mm 288 PAGES" http://www.lafourniture.ma/index.php/papeterie-fourniture-de... Maybe a "main" is usually 96 pages in African countries; I don't know. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 8 days (2019-01-21 20:20:55 GMT) Post-grading -------------------------------------------------- OK, Rimas. I agree. Thanks for the feedback! Best, Charles |
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