Will Starbucks regret their decision to allow anyone to hang-out, use their bathrooms and not buy anything?

@SW-User What about baths?

@NankerPhelge no baths in a cofeey shop

@SW-User BayouBoudin says there are. If you read his post, it says "Will Starbucks regret their decision to allow anyone to hang-out, use their bathrooms and not buy anything?"

@NankerPhelge bathrooms means sink toilet and mirrors dude not actual bathtubs hahaha

@SW-User A bathroom is a room with a bath in it. How can it logically be anything else? If there isn't a bath in the room, it cannot be called a bathroom. It doesn't get any simpler.

@NankerPhelge bathroom does't imply a bath mate even if bathroom is a compound of the words bath+room.

@SW-User Yes, it does. Nobody calls it a bathroom when they know perfectly well there isn't a bath in there.

@NankerPhelge of course they do. "In addition, there is the use of the word "bathroom" to describe a room containing a toilet and a basin, and nothing else." (wikipedia)

@SW-User I only accept the definitions as given in the 1970 Pocket Oxford Dictionary (the one I used in school) and/or the 1968 Newnes Family Reference Dictionary (the one I used at home). I do not accept online dictionaries because they have become corrupted and distorted by weirdos who think it is "cool" to mess up the English language when they know deep down inside it is anything but.

@NankerPhelge that's the first time I looked it up because you seem to think people dont use it in common speech but they do

@SW-User I am 56 years old and I have yet to hear any of my family or friends using the word "bathroom" in any other context but the literal one.

@NankerPhelge well i guess this sorts out the confusion. i dont think she thought of actual baths. it doesnt make sense

@SW-User You were the one who tried to tell me a bathroom doesn't necessarily have a bath in it. You were the one who tried to tell me other people use the word "bathroom" in other contexts apart from the literal one. You are the one who doesn't make sense. 🤔

@NankerPhelge you think bathtubs make sense in starbucks 😐 damn

@SW-User No, I don't. I thought you did, going by your comments. Lol :)

@NankerPhelge where did I say bathrooms imply baths

@SW-User That's the point I've been trying to make. You didn't say that even though it's obvious that's what a bathroom is. You are trying to imply that it has some other meaning when it hasn't.

@NankerPhelgei dont get your point though. thinking of baths in a starbucks context is wrong. the word has developed since the 60ies

@SW-User I was born in the 60s and we've always used the word "bathroom" to describe precisely what it is - a room with a bath in it. Yes, it usually does have a toilet in it as well (although my grandmother's didn't, her toilet was in a separate room). But the main point is this: Why call it a bathroom when there is nothing in there but a toilet? Why not call it a toilet like normal people? 🤔

i understand but language is dynamic. there is no butter in a butterfly either. compound words can have different meanings than their individual parts

@SW-User That is true of butterfly, but not bathroom.