I received more than twenty responses to the question I posed in my blog of the other day: "What is the French word for fuck?" Thanks very much. As I may not have made clear, the question largely had to do with what the duck, Rosa, uttered again and again in the crime novels of Louise Penny. The setting for these adventures is a small town in Quebec, just north of the Vermont border, and the residents speak French (although Penny writes the dialogue in English). Rose the duck says "Fuck" but was that a French fuck or an English fuck?
By coincidence, in this morning's New York Times is an article "A Language Bill Deepens a Culture Clash in Quebec" which touches on this subject.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/09/world/canada/quebec-french-language-laws.html
Apparently there is a new law pending in Quebec that will, among other things, require people to speak French. My understanding of French is pretty much limited to "merde" and "fuck," though I rarely say either word out loud. So if I were to visit Quebec, I'd have to remain silent or risk breaking the law. I wonder how Penny gets by writing books in English?
I'm all for freedom of speech and I'm all against censorship, so maybe I won't be visiting Canada any time soon. And I guess, depending on whether it's an English fuck or a French fuck, Rosa the duck may be in big trouble.
I do like the sound of French. And I know it's the language of love. When crying out in orgasm, do French lovers use French to express their ecstasy? What might be the punishment for slipping into some other language mid climax?
On a slightly different note, yesterday my SOL download count topped 2.5 million. Thanks to SOL and to you for taking a look at my stories.