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Hawaiian........ lua (loo-uh)

The English call it the loo, the bog (usually men), the lavatory (usually older or wealthy "posh" people) the smallest room or simply the toilet, which is how it is signed in public places.

In Spanish it's 'el lavabo' - pronounced el lah-bah-boh.

In French, it's 'la toilette' - pronounced 'lah twah-lett)

In German it's 'klo' - pronounced 'clo'

Russian is tualyet, with the stress on the "ye". I'm not quite sure if this link will work, but you can hear it here.

Great fun, priene, I'm wetting myself here so Russian to the tualyet.

Can't work out how to translate to different languages, but I got "Willie Wonker is a wanker" in several different accents.

qwerty said:

Great fun, priene, I'm wetting myself here.

Can't work out how to translate to different languages, but I got "Willie Wonker is a wanker" in several different accents.

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Veelli oo-onkyer - wanker

Somehow, I'm reminded of that Blackadder scene where Doctor Johnson produces the manuscript of his dictionary, and the first thing Baldrick does is look up swear words.

If you want translation, click on the languages next to "Online Translator". Paralink is also pretty good.

STOPPIT!

Only the Russian managed the full sentence, except she thinks it's a winker. All the others only said the last word, and my fav was the Portuguese bloke.

Japanese for "your ennui has eroded my sense of self-worth"

Good effort by the Japanese chick, but the others obviously don't speak question mark.

I think I'm in love with the Chinese woman. She sounds sensual even when she's telling me my sense of humour sends a cold spasm down her colon.

qwerty said:

Good effort by the Japanese chick, but the others obviously don't speak question mark.

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Odd. Hubbie's puter shows the Japanese script, but mine displays a row of question marks.

That'll be your install fonts. Different systems have different font sets installed. Your web browser's not finding a font that will display the Japanese characters properly.

I thought the Spanish version was excusado.

Kathie Freeman said:

I thought the Spanish version was excusado.

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"Excusado" is used in Mexico and other places in North and Central America, but not in Spain. (Or in Argentina and Venezuela, although I imagine people in touristy locales would know what you meant.)

In Spain, one says "el bano" (with a tilde over the n, but I don't know how to do it) or "los servicios" (in a public place) or "el aseo."

Or "el water" but that's the Spanish equivalent of "john" or even "crapper" in US English.

Brazilian Portuguese, from the Polite to rude

Toalete – to-ah-leh-tea.
Banheiro – Ban-eh-eeeroo (by far, the most common)
Vaso Sanitário – Vah-soo San-ee-tah-ree-oh (or simply Vah-soo)
Casinha – Ka-zee-nyah (more used in rural areas)
Patente – Pah-ten-tea
Privada – Pree-vah-dah

Isn't it also "water closet" in the UK? I recall an urgent search down a hotel corridor in New Zealand. I thought "W.C." was a janitor's closet.

Brits don't say water closet. They say:toilet, lavatory, lav, karsi, bog, loo.

The throne room, the crap house, the crapper...and in naval slang it's the 'head' -don't know why.

Bufty said:

in naval slang it's the 'head' -don't know why.

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I think it's got something to do with the crap receptacle being put at the head of the ship so waves washing over the bow cleaned it.

Foricas

For Spanish, I generally hear it called el bano (with the tilde, I also don't know how to do that) here, where most people speak Northern Mexican/Southwestern US spanglish. De donde es el bano?

(Slang's funny. What you learn in the text books and how it's actually spoken are SO different sometimes, and it's so regional. I was taught in school never to call 'milk' simply 'leche' or a bathroom a 'bano' because they were both very rude uses. But everyone here uses those words even in fairly polite company. On the flip side, calling eggs 'huevos' if you're not careful how you phrase it may get massive snickers.)

-- Leva