As someone from a former British colony who now lives in the U.S., I switch between both forms of English pretty natively..
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My fave is I keep telling people Iโm going TO THE TOILET (instead of restroom) coz they donโt like imagining a toilet bowl here, which is what it is to them
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@skinnylatte nobody's told you you speak pretty good English yet?
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@SRDas no one ever guesses Iโm from somewhere else but that could be a Bay Area thing
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@skinnylatte โI bonked while bikingโ is something I hear pretty frequently among my athletic friends in the USA. (But after living overseas for a few years, I too default to โtoilet.โ
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@rednikki for some reason, the Thais, Malaysians, Singaporeans and Indonesians love to tell you what they are going to the toilet TO DO
like even in work meetings itโs fairly common for someone who will go hang on I gotta pee / poop ahahaha
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Amin Hollon ๐บ๐ธ๐ฒ๐พ๐ฎ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ซreplied to Adrianna Tan last edited by
Wait, "toilet" is region-specific? I genuinely had no idea. I think I use restroom and toilet pretty interchangeably, but most people where I am say "bathroom".
Hm, come to think of it I use "bathroom" when at someone's home but "restroom" to refer to public restrooms. And "toilet" for either.
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Adrianna Tanreplied to Amin Hollon ๐บ๐ธ๐ฒ๐พ๐ฎ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ซ last edited by
@amin โtoiletโ is kind of weird here where I am at least
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Andres "๐ง ๐โ" Salomonreplied to Adrianna Tan last edited by
@skinnylatte @amin Yeah, here in the US we say bathroom.
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Carrie Shanafeltreplied to Andres "๐ง ๐โ" Salomon last edited by
@Andres4NY @skinnylatte @amin I say toilet in the US; it doesn't sound weird to me.
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Amin Hollon ๐บ๐ธ๐ฒ๐พ๐ฎ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ซreplied to Carrie Shanafelt last edited by
@carrideen @Andres4NY @skinnylatte
Doesn't sound weird to me either, what I don't know is if it would sound weird to those around me.
Okay okay I am nerding out way too much; studying Communications has done nothing good for my existing tendency to overthink every single social interaction. At least now it's coming from curiosity instead of anxiety.
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Adrianna Tanreplied to Amin Hollon ๐บ๐ธ๐ฒ๐พ๐ฎ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ซ last edited by [email protected]
@amin @carrideen @Andres4NY maybe itโs just a weird N Californian thing. People are fine talking about their feelings but not fluids.
(Iโve been in work situations where people canโt even say bathroom / restroom. Theyโll say things like โI need a bio breakโ)