Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

[bunn]

I have recently become particularly sensitive to cries of 'Noooooooo!' at climactic moments in movies.   I may even have gone so far as to say 'I don't think people actually say 'nooooooo!' in moments of crisis.'    

And then this evening, Ruggie tried to go trotting into the house, having fallen over in a thick muddy puddle, and being deeply encrusted with mud.  The noise I made as I leaped to grab him before he hit the carpet was pretty much exactly :  Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

Comments

[bunn.livejournal.com]

Often though, you get it as a reaction, rather than an instruction: X is torn apart by tentacles, Y responds : NOOOOOOOOOO!

That's the kind of NOOOOOOO! I can't be doing with. If it's an instruction, as you suggest, that is permissible, indeed perhaps even useful in context.

[ladyofastolat.livejournal.com]

I think human tests are called for, perhaps using a crowd of football fans as test subjects. I have certainly heard wails of despair issuing from pubs showing a Big Match; seeing England throwing away their latest chance to score probably elicits similar emotions to seeing your friend torn apart by tentacles. Are any of these wailing people shouting "Nooo!" and if so, how many?

[bunn.livejournal.com]

Wails of despair, loud profanities, wordless expressions of violent frustration, yes.

I am unconvinced that cries of Nooooooooooooooooooooo! would make the list. Any test would need to differentiate between 'NO!' [acceptable] and NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! [by my premise, just a tad OTT.]