"NOT cheap imitations, but genuine replicas!" [NT]

[Geoff Nathan]

Exactly. I was thinking about an exact replica of, say, the Golden Hind (once toured one, in London) or the Wright 'Flyer'. Quite different from an imitation Viking longboat (whatever that might be...)

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> License? A replica of something notable, like the Eames chair, can be
> authorized, in which case it wouldn't be called an imitation.
>
> m a m
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> On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 2:45 PM, Laurence Horn
> <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:
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> > At 2:31 PM -0400 5/13/10, Wilson Gray wrote:
> > What distinguishes between an "imitation" of a Rolex and a "replica"
> of a
> > Rolex?
> >
> > Price.  The latter is more costly.
> > Besides "genuine replica" (less obviously oxymoronic than "genuine
> > imitation"), there's also "exact replica", while "exact imitation"
> > seems less likely to me.  Contrarily, "pale imitation" seems more
> > natural than "pale replica".
> >
> >
> >
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