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| rtyhgn85 Newbie United Kingdom Joined 4803 days ago 18 posts - 23 votes | Message 1 of 43 17 March 2011 at 8:53am | IP Logged |
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Well , I wanna know that different Countries' names for their public lavatories
For people who travel to different countries, it must be a good thing to know what the public restroom is called in each country that they visit. US = Restroom Philippines = Comfort Room or CR Britain =? Canada =? France = ? Spain = ? Mexico = ? Japan = ? China = ? Etc....? 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| mr_chinnery Senior Member England Joined 5551 days ago 202 posts - 297 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 2 of 43 17 March 2011 at 4:43pm | IP Logged |
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By 'public' I'm assuming you mean any public convenience whether it's in a restaurant or
in the street. In England we call it a toilet. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Gorgoll2 Senior Member Brazil veritassword.blogspo Joined 4940 days ago 159 posts - 192 votes Speaks: Portuguese* | Message 3 of 43 18 March 2011 at 12:39am | IP Logged |
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In Brazil, we call it "Banheiro".
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| Sanghee Groupie United States Joined 4862 days ago 60 posts - 98 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Mandarin, Korean | Message 4 of 43 18 March 2011 at 1:14am | IP Logged |
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In Korean it's 화장실 (toilet room) for a public restroom.
I don't know if this is typical, but you might want to include "bathroom" for the US, because I have called and have heard others call a public restroom a bathroom. It's not exactly logical but it happens. Edited by Sanghee on 18 March 2011 at 1:17am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Danakin Triglot Newbie Germany Joined 6214 days ago 14 posts - 19 votes Speaks: German*, English, Japanese Studies: Russian, Mandarin | Message 5 of 43 22 March 2011 at 10:21pm | IP Logged |
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Japanese has a lot of words...
トイレ - toire - from "toilet room" お手洗い - o-te arai - lit. "hand wash" 便所 - benjo - lit. "convinient place" 化粧室 - keshôshitsu - lit. "make-up room" I believe there are more words in "the wild", but these I definitely remember from my stay in Tokyo. I've been to Canada a few years ago and I believe they said "washroom" there. (Vancouver) In Germany we say "Toilette" or colloquial the most common one is "Klo", though there are a few more. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5128 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 6 of 43 22 March 2011 at 10:49pm | IP Logged |
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We have a whole range of terms in Norwegian, from the polite ones to the unmentionable ones. The two first ones are the ones you might find on a public lavatory door. The others are however just as commmon in everyday speech.
Toalett (toilet) WC (from water closet) Do Dass ... and I'll stop there since we are reaching the umentionable ones... Oh, and I 'Ill add the euphemistic "På hjørnet - At the corner" 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Jinx Triglot Senior Member Germany reverbnation.co Joined 5487 days ago 1085 posts - 1879 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Catalan, Dutch, Esperanto, Croatian, Serbian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Italian, Spanish, Yiddish | Message 7 of 43 23 March 2011 at 12:17am | IP Logged |
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I've heard that in several European countries, you'll be understood if you say "WC." My only experience of this is in Germany and on the German border of France. Of course you have to pronounce it the local way, e.g. "vay tsay" in Germany.
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| Dragomanno Triglot Groupie Zimbabwe Joined 4797 days ago 80 posts - 98 votes Speaks: Italian*, EnglishC2, GermanB2 Studies: Romanian, Serbo-Croatian, Latin, Lithuanian, Albanian, Ancient Greek | Message 8 of 43 28 March 2011 at 11:26pm | IP Logged |
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Oh my goodness...
"Bagno" is the most common Italian word for it, and possibly the most polite one. "Cesso" is a quite rough word - also meaning "ugly person". It sounds terribly funny to me though! :D Edited by Dragomanno on 28 March 2011 at 11:27pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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