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Hogo ? à gogo: Raymond Queneau's 1959 novel Zazie dans le métro (film version by Louis Malle) opens with the remarkable word Doukipudonktan. This is in fact the phonemic transcription of the sentence D'où qu'ils puent donc tant? (What makes them stink so much? ~ What a stench!). Queneau's version (note the unFrench ks) is very close to the IPA, which would be According to an article in Le Monde (30 May 2001) Queneau's spelling is a precursor of today's SMS text-messages. |