Cliquer

[Laurence Horn]

At 4:54 PM -0400 8/2/02, James A. Landau wrote:
>French or Franglais, not English, but maybe someone here would be interested:
>
>I just received a pornspam in French (that's nothing, I got an e-mail from a
>French polling outfit a few days before the recent election in France asking
>me how I was going to vote).  What is of interest is the following text:
>
>       Inscrivez-vous gratuitement en cliquant ici :
>
>       Pour ne plus être contacté, cliquez ici :
>
>which implies that in French the verb "to click on a mouse button" is
>"cliquer".
>
>Is that a real French verb?  Or is it Franglais?
>
I'm curious:  was your unsolicited message from France or French Canada?

Larry