Mark Liberman has an interesting post over at Language Log about the spelling of interjections and onomatopoetic words in comic strips. |
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Goudou-goudou, an onomatopoetic rendering of the sound that people heard when the shaking began, is the Haitian Creole name for this earthquake. |
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The Samurai Shopper loves a product that's onomatopoetic and exclamatory too. |
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His dictionary hints at moments of cultural syncretism and dissonance, and, of course, varying degrees of onomatopoetic accuracy. |
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In places the translation, from the French, yields onomatopoetic effects that depart from our own. |
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