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Is the sign "Man's Toilet" acceptable?

 
 
Reply Fri 25 Nov, 2011 12:14 am

Two sign boards were made, one for "Man's Toilet," the other "Woman's Toilet."

Is it okay?
 
tsarstepan
 
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Reply Fri 25 Nov, 2011 12:19 am
@oristarA,
It'll do in that it gets the message across. But in the US, using the word "toilet" is unecessay. In restaurants, offices, and retail stores, it could be simplified to signs that just read "Men" and "Women." By deduction people can figure that these doors lead to the restrooms/wc.
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hingehead
 
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Reply Fri 25 Nov, 2011 12:34 am
@oristarA,
Man's and Woman's is not the way it's usually done - Men Women is more than enough
http://www.justbathroomsigns.com/img/sm/S/Men-Wall-Sign-SE-1705_bu.gifhttp://www.justbathroomsigns.com/img/sm/S/Women-Wall-Sign-SE-1706_bu.gif

Why limit it to English - the silhouette convention is universal.

http://zacharywagner.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/ist2_5297847-glossy-toilet-signs.jpg
Eorl
 
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Reply Fri 25 Nov, 2011 01:16 am
@hingehead,
(except in Scotland)
oristarA
 
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Reply Fri 25 Nov, 2011 05:51 am
Thank you all.
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McTag
 
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Reply Fri 25 Nov, 2011 03:42 pm
@Eorl,

There are many jokey ones too.

I like "Setters and Pointers"
hingehead
 
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Reply Fri 25 Nov, 2011 03:56 pm
@Eorl,
I always ask a stranger - 'Am I triangle-shaped?'
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hingehead
 
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Reply Fri 25 Nov, 2011 04:02 pm
@McTag,
I did find some bizarre variations looking for the generics:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5A9-dHdt46Q/TGiycggUZYI/AAAAAAAAANQ/TpUNRd2LB1E/s1600/toilet-sign-17.jpg

http://wwwdelivery.superstock.com/WI/223/1566/200705/PreviewComp/SuperStock_1566-367930.jpg

http://helloiamhere.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/HLIC/b0a6484b18a795a9908c76de0c113eb5.jpg

http://poll.safa.tv/uploads/201104/11/imgs/1302507112_6-unusual-and-clever-toilet-signs.jpg

http://media.smashingmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/uploader/images/signs/toilet-cologne-stadium/full_toilet-cologne-stadium.jpg

http://www.icbe.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/turkeytoiletsign.jpg

http://sensemaya.org/files/toilet_signs_59_3.jpg

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_pTlcg6XhFIQ/TAU0gONodEI/AAAAAAAAAyY/N99uQSfMGtI/s1600/t.jpg
McTag
 
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Reply Fri 25 Nov, 2011 11:37 pm
@hingehead,

I'm impressed.
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