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Insalubrious Sanitary

lx_2807502lx_2807502 Posts: 2,996
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If you go through the promo shots, the "7. Lavatory" appears to be a sink. I get that it's a dingy style bathroom, but...

The vendor may not be English as a first language, and that's fine - but it's weird that Daz has QA people approving everything yet there seems to be no effort to correct product descriptions (the description below is kind of a mess as well as the image being flat out confusing.)

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  • nemesis10nemesis10 Posts: 3,894

    lavatory |ˈlavəˌtôrē| noun (pl. lavatories) a room or compartment with a toilet and washbasin; a bathroom.• a sink or washbasin in a bathroom.• Brit. a flush toilet.

     

  • lx_2807502lx_2807502 Posts: 2,996

    I see one website with that definition which I've never heard anyone use in my life and to which the example given doesn't even use the word, and every other website backing up the definition as it being the toilet or room as a whole. I'm sure there may be people somewhere calling a sink a lavatory, but I've never heard it as common usage, nor has anyone else I asked.

    Regardless, the rest hasn't been properly quality checked over. I'm in no way trying to single the vendor out as being responsible - there are many many store pages like this or not even bothering with any real description, which doesn't really fit with the whole Daz "we QA everything!"

  • FSMCDesignsFSMCDesigns Posts: 12,849

    http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lavatory

     

    : a bathroom sink

    :  a vessel (as a basin) for washing; especially :  a fixed bowl or basin with running water and drainpipe for washing

    Just because you have never heard it called that does not mean it is wrong. I have always considered the term to be the whole room, which apparently is another way of looking at it.

  • Cris PalominoCris Palomino Posts: 12,676

    While we try to make sure that we cover the forums to catch things, it is generally more helpful if you put a ticket in rather than post to the forums where it may be overlooked for a time or completely.  

    I'm aware of the different uses of "lavatory"; I, too, looked it up.  I've sent in a report, but tickets are a good idea for the reasons I cited.  :)

  • lx_2807502lx_2807502 Posts: 2,996

    Yes I'm quite capable of looking up a dictionary result too, but since several people I asked from several different countries said "no that's a sink" I assumed the common term would be better. Maybe it's an American thing, though the couple I asked had never heard of it.

    Honestly I didn't just send in a ticket instead because I thought the staff would be wondering why I was bothering them with some minor issue or offering corrections, but if that's the preferred way after all then I'll just send a ticket next time.

    Sorry for the disturbance~

  • jestmartjestmart Posts: 4,449

    It is fairly common usage in my part of northern NH.  Generally poor but proud people use it to sound more worldly and a bit of class.

  • FirstBastionFirstBastion Posts: 8,054

    I was in the Renovations business for 25 years,  and the term lavatory is very commonly used in NorthAmerica to refer to a sink. It comes from the French word Laver : to wash.  

  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604
    FirstBastion said:

    I was in the Renovations business for 25 years,  and the term lavatory is very commonly used in NorthAmerica to refer to a sink. It comes from the French word Laver : to wash.  

    Actually it comes from the Latin   Lavare - to wash and Lavatorium - A place for washing in

    late Middle English: from late Latin lavatorium ‘place for washing’, from Latin lavare ‘to wash’. The word originally denoted something in which to wash, such as a bath or piscina, later (mid 17th century) a room with washing facilities; the current sense dates from the 19th century.

  • lx_2807502lx_2807502 Posts: 2,996

    That's interesting. I looked into it some more and it seems that it's an American thing, particularly in DIY / Renovations: apparently a lavatory refers to a basin set into a cabinet, whereas sink refers to a standalone basin ie pedastal type thing. In England and Australia and the Americans I know just call all of them sinks.

    Did you know that there's actually no real word for a toilet? All of them are euphemisms.

    Lavatory is Latin, (washbasin/washroom) but probably came back into English use from the French version (which came from the latin.) Toilet comes from the french toilette (cover or a bag for clothes, which became a cloth that brushes and things were stored on, which became a dressing room in which there was often a lavatory, and then the rest is obvious.)

    - Online Etymology Dictionary

  • isidornisidorn Posts: 1,601

    Speaking of toilets. What I found curious is that it got a urinal but not an actual toilet.

  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604

    +1

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,211
    edited November 2015
    isidorn said:

    Speaking of toilets. What I found curious is that it got a urinal but not an actual toilet.

    A room designed for the anally challenged?

     

    Post edited by LeatherGryphon on
  • Oso3DOso3D Posts: 15,095

    Leather: Or, contrary, those with great rectal dexterity.

     

  • ThatGuyThatGuy Posts: 797

    Prior to working in Accounting and paying the bills, I've never even heard of the bathroom referred to as "water closet" until I started seeing them on the invoices.

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 109,261
    isidorn said:

    Speaking of toilets. What I found curious is that it got a urinal but not an actual toilet.

    or door.

  • Pack58Pack58 Posts: 750
    Richard Haseltine said:
    isidorn said:

    Speaking of toilets. What I found curious is that it got a urinal but not an actual toilet.

    or door.

    If I lived somewhere with a bathroom that looked like that.... I'd brick it in and use the backyard.

     

    So Ansiko seems to have achieved the affect they were after. Full points.

  • jakibluejakiblue Posts: 7,281

    oh how strange! I've always thought 'lavatory' was the loo - as in, "I'm going to the lav" which I sometimes say (usually to myself cos no-one wants to hear that i need to pee). I never thought of 'lavatory' as the WHOLE thing...toilet, sink in a room etc. 

    You learn something new every day. 

  • mrposermrposer Posts: 1,134

    In my cart ... love the atmosphere of the promos.... to me the vibe is sort of a cleanup room connected to who knows what activity (think Hostel). 

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