cliquer

Sat Aug 3 11:38:02 UTC 2002

From: "Jan Ivarsson TransEdit" <jan.ivarsson at TRANSEDIT.ST>
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Sent: Saturday, August 03, 2002 7:48 AM
Subject: Re: cliquer

| Petit Robert Dictionnaire de la langue francaise has for "cliquer":
| 1306; onomat. from "clic". 1. vx. Faire un bruit sec (see "cliqueter"). 2. (angl. "to click") Inform....(...) "Double cliquer" (Anglic.)...
| So it seems that the French would no see "cliquer" as an anglicism, but rather a revival of an old verb. "Double cliquer" is an obvious anglicism, though.
| Jan Ivarsson
| jan.ivarsson at transedit.st
|
That's quite an interesting history, which I do not question at all. I am just curious whether the average native French speaker knows it.

Sali.