If you’re aiming for surreal, bureaucratic satire in a dystopian interrogation, you can make the dialogue feel deliberately disjointed while avoiding directing a slur at a protected group. Since bougnoule is a highly offensive French ethnic slur, it’s better treated as evidence in the interrogator’s linguistic analysis rather than as casual dialogue.

Here’s a rewritten version:

“A man identified only by three symbols,” the Examiner read from the transcript. “Orchestra, was it? Or perhaps that was merely the password.”

He looked up.

“Then the recording deteriorates into multilingual static: ‘Bougnoule… bu gnôle… mais a eu Marc de Savoie.’ Meaningless? A cipher? A drunken folk refrain? Or an attempt to bait the machine into categorising the speaker?”

The stenographer paused.

“In this Republic,” she said quietly, “every misplaced syllable is eventually promoted to evidence.”

Or, with a darker satirical tone:

“State the name.”

“He had no name. Just three symbols.”

“Occupation?”

“Orchestra… I think.”

The interrogator frowned at the transcript.

“Then comes the linguistic contamination: ‘Bougnoule… bu gnôle mais a eu Marc de Savoie.’ The Algorithm has highlighted it in crimson.”

“Does it mean anything?”

“Not anymore. That ceased to matter years ago. The Ministry now prosecutes etymology.”

This approach preserves the unsettling, absurd atmosphere while making the offensive word part of the interrogation’s examination of language rather than endorsing or repeating it as ordinary speech.