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toilet, Moscow, Russia. Note the standard
Russian lack of seat, just a refreshingly
cool porcelain bowl. Especially bracing during
those chilly Russian winters. Plus the prison-style
door. Far scarier in person, as there's no
lighting, and one experiences the fear of
the unknown. Bring a flashlight! Or a camera
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the path following the ridgeline from the
main town of Fira to Oiua, on the Greek island
of Santorini. Technically known as an Aegean
mountaintop dual squatter.... |
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Aly Bedouin village, Dahab, Sinai Peninsula,
Egypt. Another great floor-mounted squatter,
this one set into a tile floor. A great
hose/sprayer unit here! This is excellent
by Egyptian standards, but then again it's
in Sinai, not along the Nile. By the way,
Dahab is on the beach, and that's sand you
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marble-topped public toilets near the Library
of Celcius, in Ephesus, Asia Minor (Turkey).
This large public toilet had approximately
twelve seats on each of three sides of a room,
so it was a 36-holer! Well, Ephesus was the
major city of Asia Minor. It also has a remarkably
deep waste channel, from about two meters
deep (in the section shown at right here)
to perhaps twice that on the other side of
the room. Note how far the water channel is
in front of the seat, one would have to lean
very far forward to utilize it. These toilets
date from when Luke, Paul, John, et. al. were
in Ephesus. The wealthy Ephesians would send
their slaves down early to warm up a seat
for them. A luxury the apostles didn't have.
Or, for that matter, today's Muscovites stuck
with those nasty seatless Russian public toilets....
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Toiletological
Linguistics
What's the first thing to learn in the local language
when you go somewhere?
"Where's the toilet?" From the "Word
of the Day" mailing list at www.travlang.com:
afrikaans: Waar is die badkamer? Waar is die toilet?
albanian: Ku ndodhet banjoja (nevojtorja)?
arabic: Ain Alhamaam?
armenian: Our eh paghnikeh?
asturian: U''l ban~u?
azerbaijani: - Ayaq yolu haradadi^r? Vanna otagvi^
haradadi^r?
basque: Non dago komuna?
bengali: Gosolkhana kothay, dyakhaben ki?
bosnian: Gdje je toalet?
breton: Pelec'h eman~ ar priveziou`?
bulgarian: Kade e toaletnata?
catalan: On e's la cambra de bany?
creole: Ki laplas twale`t-la?
croatian: Gdje je zahod?
czech: Kde je za'chod?
danish: Hvor er toilettet?
dutch: Waar is het toilet?
english: Where is the bathroom? Where is the toilet?
esperanto: Kie estas la necesejo?
estonian: Kus on va"ljaka"ik?
farsi: Mos'ta'rah Ko'jast
finnish: Missa" on WC?
french: Ou` sont les toilettes?
frisian: We^r kin ik it hu'ske fine?
galician: Onde é o quarto de banho? Onde
é o retrete?
german: Wo ist die Toilette?
greek: Pu' i'ne i tuale'ta?
gujarati: baathroom kyaaN chhe?
hawaiian: Ai hea lua?
hebrew: eifo ha'sherutim?
hindi: aapkaa snanghar (sauchalya) kahan hai?
holooe: Pia"n-so'. ti" to'-u"i?
hungarian: Hol a mosdo'
icelandic: Hvar er snyrtingin
ido: Ube esas la neceseyo?
indonesian: Kamar kecil di mana?
interlingua: Ubi es le w.c. (lavatorio)?
irish: Ca' bfhuil seomra na mban (f) / bfhear
(m)?
italian: Dove e' il bagno?
japanese: Toire wa doko desu ka?
korean: Hwa-jang-sil-i O-die Isum-ni-ka?
latin: Ubi sunt loca secreta? Ubi est conclave
necessarium?
latvian: Kur atrodas vannas istaba?
lithuanian: Kur yra tualetas?
malaysian: Di manakah terletaknya tandas? Tandas
di mana?
mandarin: xiv shouv jian- zai- na li?
marshallese: Ewi em jirikrik in?
norwegian: Hvor er toalettet?
occitan: Ont son los comuns?
polish: Gdzie jest toaleta?
Portuguese: Onde e' o quarto de banho? Onde e'
o casa de banho?
Brazilian Portuguese: Onde e' o banheiro? Onde
e' o quarto de banho?
romanian: Unde este toaleta?
russian: Gde zdes tualet?
serbian: Gde je toalet?
sesotho: Batekamore e kae?
slovak: Kde je WC?
slovenian: Kje je kopalnica? Kje je stranisxcxe?
spanish: Do'nde esta' el ban~o?
swahili: Choo kiko wapi?
swedish: Var a"r toaletten
tagalog: Nasaan ang kasilyas?
thai: hong-nam-you-tee-nai?
turkish: tuvalet nerede?
ukrainian: de tut tualyet? (laznychka, uborna)
welsh: Ble mae'r toiled?
vietnamese: , Nha` ve^. sinh o*? dda^u ?
xhosa: Iphi indlu yangasese (toilet)
yiddish: vu iz der bodtsimer?
zulu: likuphi itholethe?
Accents are represented by '(acute) `(grave) "(umlaut),
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No,
Thomas Crapper did not invent the flush toilet, although
he was quite the plumber and businessman.
See
this
site for debunking of this urban legend.
The
verb "to crap", meaning "to defecate",
has been in use since 1846, when Thomas Crapper was
only nine years old. However, his company is on the
net today: http://www.thomascrapper.co.uk/
More
info on Toilets can be found at the Toiletology
website....
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