El inodoro inodoro? The odorless toilet?

Question

Hola,

I just learned the word for toilet. It's "inodoro". So, I have two questions:

1) Is this word commonly used in Latin America and in Spain? (I don't remember hearing it in either place, but my spanish is terrible so it might have gone by me.)

2) Inodoro as an adjective can mean "odorless". So, the odorless toilet would be "el inodoro inodoro?"

Chao, Roberto

Answer 1

Not sure about the first question, but as for the second, I guess you'd only use that combination of words for comic effect. Or to sound quirky.

Ha, that would be the same as us in English saying "a plain plain" (as in "the rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain" - yes, pun intended) instead of a "boring/dull/ordinary/etc plain".

But it is kind of ironic; you'd think the last thing a toilet would be is odorless...