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And of course, yes we have no bananas.
Or how about this: "HEY! Get away from me!"
Then there's this: "Why do you hate freedom?"
Random surprised noises also work quite well, I've found.
So, you never felt the need for a formal code for this kind of event?
(Sorry, gangerh, for showering your email address with notifications)
Prego!
Pro, I usually hear occupied, just a minute, or there's someone in here. But if you want to, you could continue to say occupato -- I bet most Americans would understand it.
Of course from now on I will say you're pooping on my head. Thank you for destroying my social life. :-)
Pro, you say one of these: sorry, occupied, just a minute, or my favorite you're pooping on my head. I think there's an Italian phrase for that, but my head's all persimmony right now.
OK, it's my turn.
I need help with English and this is particularly hard to ask to anyone.
You are in a public toilet, but you forgot to lock the door. What do you say when someone from outside puts his/her hand on the handle?
In Italy we say occupato (busy, engaged).
...I fear one day this piece of information could become useful...
There have been similar attempts at this kind of thing before, but not in a public manner, What's the word for that?.
If it had been a different kind of cereal, fruit loop the loop might have been a possibility.
Here's one found in the wild: antiaurosemantonym
You can see it lurking at the top of pulchritude, contributed by logophile, and not far from its tentative definition: a word that sounds unlike its meaning. There's even a reference to skipvia's list on the subject.
I keep reading ricocereal as "rice-o-cereal" on the comments feed on the homepage and thinking "What has that got to do with anything??" Yes, I'm very smart.
Hey, I like the simplicity of cereal pinball. But ricocereal has a great ring to it too -- maybe it's the technical term?
But what's the term for something serendipitous that I couldn't have done better if I had tried?
I think I'm looking for the cereal pinball. Does it make a satisfying splong sound?
Are you looking for a word that describes
1) the cereal pinball
2) the food pinball
3) the whole phenomenon
or
4) other (please specify)?
How about ricocereal?
At breakfast recently I put my spoon into my bowl of Sugar Puffs and one Sugar Puff, on contact with the spoon, catapulted out of the bowl, flew across the table, rebounded off the teapot with a (very satisfying) ping and finally came to rest beside the butter dish. Something I couldn't have done trying.
There must be a word that describes this kind of phenomenon. All contributions gratefully received, as they say.
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