Before revision: French ' French has all kinds of interesting terms of endearment, including a rather odd assortment of barnyard animals...[like] mon canard (my duck)'Laura K. Lawless, "French Terms of Endearment" – something which may be compared to the British 'baby talk...duckie'.Laurell K. Hamilton, Incubus Dreams (2004) p. 284 Proper names When proper names escape one, terms of endearment can always substitute, producing (as Lacan put it) the 'opacity of the ejaculations of love, when, lacking a signifier to name the object of its epithalamium, it employs the crudest trickery of the imaginary.
After revision: French French has all kinds of interesting terms of endearment, including a rather odd assortment of barnyard animals...[like] mon canard (my duck)'Laura K. Lawless, "French Terms of Endearment" – something which may be compared to the British 'baby talk...duckie'.Laurell K. Hamilton, Incubus Dreams (2004) p. 284 Proper names When proper names escape one, terms of endearment can always substitute, producing (as Lacan put it) the 'opacity of the ejaculations of love, when, lacking a signifier to name the object of its epithalamium, it employs the crudest trickery of the imaginary.