Make Sure You Know How to Read this Sign

If you have lived for a while in the ‘first world’, make sure you know how to read this sign. Sanitarios is the Spanish word used in Guatemala for bathrooms. Make sure to memorize it, otherwise you will be running like this little girl. 😉

Don’t you just love this Sanitarios sign… see how can I not suffer a fetish for signs in La Antigua Guatemala when even the most mundane sign is made to look aesthetically pleasing.

6 Responses to "Make Sure You Know How to Read this Sign"

coltrane_lives says:
January 10, 2008 at 5:07 pm
Now this is practical advice…especially since there are no pictures indicating restrooms for “men” and “women”! 🙂
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Luis Figueroa says:
January 10, 2008 at 5:18 pm
Hey, do u know what puzzles me? Why is it that some people say restroom, instead of toilette. Sanitarios sound like restroom. He he. Greetings.
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Manolo says:
January 10, 2008 at 10:32 pm
First reaction: Even the signs to go to the washroom are made in those amazingly beautiful tiles!
Second reaction: Is that a chain on top of the sign? Do you need to chain down your pretty signs in LAG?
Third reaction: Let me count the ways … to call the W.C.: Eng: restroom, toilet, washroom, bathroom… Esp: sanitarios, “servicios sanitarios”, baños, retrete (or is that just for the actual toilet bowl aka “inodoro”, which in itself is a funny word when you think about it) any other ways you can think of?
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Carmen says:
January 10, 2008 at 11:53 pm
I like the signs in LAG. They are so very pleasing to look at…and I like the tiles on this one. I have learned that, indeed, “restroom” is a word that one needs to learn. And fast. In Germany, I forgot the word in an instant and I kept looking for it in my head and all I could remember were these words: Eingang and Ausgang. Entrance and Exit. I was what I would call a vocabulary purgatory. Thank God for illustrations though. The world was set right when I saw that stick figure with a triangle for a skirt.
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patsy poor says:
January 11, 2008 at 12:15 pm
nice sign, here we just have men and women signs, no art.
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