Re: [YAEUT] Lexical variation survey

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Subject: Re: [YAEUT] Lexical variation survey


>> [mailto:CONLANG@listserv.brown.edu] On Behalf Of JR
>
>> Bathroom is more natural, but restroom seems more "proper"  the
> more public
>> and less personal the setting, and so, in such a setting I'd  be
> more likely
>> to say restroom if asking a stranger for its location - though I
> might
>> revert to bathroom if referring to it later, in more at-ease
> conversation.
>
> Never liked "restroom" much because it's not really a place where I
> go to rest, as opposed to a "rest area" on the side of the road.
But neither do you go to the bathroom to bathe, unless that's a euphemism in
your neck of the woods for what *I* do in the 'bathroom'....


P.