Heard: "I finished cleaning the _restroom_ and …"

[Jonathan Lighter]

People who use (private) "bathroom" for (public) "restroom" are routinely
ridiculed.

So those who do the opposite should take their lumps too.

Darwin will sort it out.

JL

On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 9:11 PM, Spanbock/Svoboda-Spanbock <
spanbocks at verizon.net> wrote:

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> Not sure to which reality show you are referring, but, I have noticed
> among my Latino students that a number of them only use the word 'restroom'
> rather than 'bathroom' even when the space that they are designing is
> residential and includes bathing facilities.
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> I have often wondered whether it had to do with the fact that some of them
> learned English primarily in elementary school, where they had only
> restrooms, not bathrooms.
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> > On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 2:36 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> That is, she finished cleaning what was known, in my lost youth, as a
> >> "bathroom," before "bathroom" came to mean, "facility open to the
> >> general public for the excretion of bodily wastes."
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> > Apparently, "restroom" is Sheila's only word for _bathroom_.
> > Throughout the entire course of the reality show, "restroom" is the
> > only word that she uses, even for the bathroom in her own house.
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> > Youneverknow.
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