Does "need-to-go" mean "need-to-pee"?

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And "he goes in there" means "he enters (the room)"?

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WASHINGTON — It's a delicate and daring experiment: Could doctors switch a leg nerve to make it operate the bladder instead? Families of a few U.S. children whose spina bifida robs them of the bladder control that most people take for granted dared to try the procedure -- and early results suggest the surgery indeed may help, in at least some patients.
With the technique, pioneered in China, the kids are supposed to scratch or pinch their thigh to signal the bladder to empty every few hours. But surprisingly, some youngsters instead are starting to feel those need-to-go sensations that their birth defect had always prevented.
"It feels like this little chill kind of thing in me," marvels 9-year-old Billy Kraser of Scranton, Pa.

"When he goes in there and he's dry and he's clean, it's such a triumph," adds his mother, Janice Kraser. "I'll hear him going, 'Yesss!'"

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@oristarA,

oristarA wrote:

And "he goes in there" means "he enters (the room)"?

Yes; either that or
that he urinates in there.

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@OmSigDAVID,

OmSigDAVID wrote:

oristarA wrote:

And "he goes in there" means "he enters (the room)"?
Yes; either that or
that he urinates in there.

Thank you Dave.
Does "chill kind of thing in me" mean "I felt something a bit cold in my body"?

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@oristarA,

feels a chill

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@oristarA,

oristarA wrote:

OmSigDAVID wrote:

oristarA wrote:

And "he goes in there" means "he enters (the room)"?
Yes; either that or
that he urinates in there.

Thank you Dave.
Does "chill kind of thing in me" mean "I felt something a bit cold in my body"?

In this case, the point is being made that
he feels a sensation in his bladder qua fullness and need for evacuation,
resulting from successful surgery, not from the weather.
Its more of a thrill than a chill.

David

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@oristarA,

oristarA wrote:

And "he goes in there" means "he enters (the room)"?

"When he goes in there and he's dry and he's clean,
it's such a triumph," adds his mother, Janice Kraser.

In this particular case,
there can be no doubt that: "he goes in there" means:
he relieves his bladder in there. It is well understood in America
that to "go" within this frame of reference means to excrete.

At very early ages, in learning to speak English,
people adopt the understanding that to "go to the bathroom"
means to excrete, not as much as to enter a walled, closed in space.

If a man were out in the woods on a hunting trip,
he might comment to a partner of a "need to go to the bathroom",
tho there be no rooms of ANY kind
for 1OOs of miles in any direction. That 'd be very paradigmatic.

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@OmSigDAVID,

OmSigDAVID wrote:

oristarA wrote:

OmSigDAVID wrote:

oristarA wrote:

And "he goes in there" means "he enters (the room)"?
Yes; either that or
that he urinates in there.

Thank you Dave.
Does "chill kind of thing in me" mean "I felt something a bit cold in my body"?

In this case, the point is being made that
he feels a sensation in his bladder qua fullness and need for evacuation,
resulting from successful surgery, not from the weather.
Its more of a thrill than a chill.

David

Excellent!

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@OmSigDAVID,

OmSigDAVID wrote:

At very early ages, in learning to speak English,
people adopt the understanding that to "go to the bathroom"
means to excrete, not as much as to enter a walled, closed in space.

If a man were out in the woods on a hunting trip,
he might comment to a partner of a "need to go to the bathroom",
tho there be no rooms of ANY kind
for 1OOs of miles in any direction. That 'd be very paradigmatic.

In Britain there is one less layer of euphemism: small kids might tell their mother they need to do a **** or a wee-wee and as they get bigger they are taught to be polite and say "go to the toilet". (My father called it the lavatory). If a person was with a friend in the woods, (especially males) they might say "take a crap/****/dump" and go behind a tree, since the nearest toilet is inaccessible. A 'bathroom' is a room with a bath. When British people go to the States and ask where the 'toilet' is, the locals often think they are too direct and think "Eeeeeew" (I believe). When Americans come to Britain and ask for 'the bathroom' or to 'wash their hands' we know what they mean because of Hollywood movies and US TV shows, literature etc. However I remember once reading about an American lady being interviewed about life in a city-owned housing project and she said she didn't like people going to the bathroom in the stairwell. I thought "How enlightened of the city planners to provide bathrooms in the stairwells."

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