Please don't call it a Glamour Commode!

A better and more international English term would be to call it a Glamour Wardrobe. The use of commode as a chest holding a chamber pot actually originates in England with washstands. It then extended to the commode chair. Finally in the US it went from being used for commode chairs/wooden toilets to a euphemism for the flush toilet. To paraphrase an old George Bernard Shaw saying about the English language, "A group of peoples separated by a common language."

This comes to mind:
http://greenlivingideas.com/wp-conte...ney-Toilet.jpg

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Originally Posted by Enkidoh

Exactly, also it's something the localization team are aware of, that a seemingly innocent word can have a wildly different meaning or context in a different country - it's something they try to take into account but simply cannot overcome every time (a while ago a similar situation occurred where an innocent and legitimate name for a BTN tool was revealed to be a slang term for a certain part of the male anatomy in another country (Philippines I believe it was?), and yes, there were player demands that be changed as well). So it's just something you have to just live with and accept it as just part of the English language's quirks.

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Well, I made a comment to Fern that the Moogle named "Puki" was offensive because "puki" in Tagalog means p_ssy. He had no idea about that.

You could say that glamours are... going into the shitter xD

But is also means cabinet or chest of drawers....
If people want to think of it as a toilet, that is their prerogative.

I truly do not care what they call it.
I do hope they build on it and make it better.

commode is one of those words that has strangely varying meanings

it's a style of women's hat that almost looks like a 1-sided miter
it's a low chest of drawers
and finally it was a chamber pot holder named that because it resembled the furnishing of the same name

somehow the toilet one is what stuck in american english and is now also the name for those things that look like a walker with a toilet bowl in it. Probably nowhere else in the world will they not think of a small dresser when they see commode

I'm fond of the Japanese naming. Mirage instead of Glamour. Mirage Dresser instead of Glamour Commode. They all mean the same thing, but I like the word mirage :C

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Originally Posted by HakaseNyan

I'm fond of the Japanese naming. Mirage instead of Glamour. Mirage Dresser instead of Glamour Commode. They all mean the same thing, but I like the word mirage :C

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A mirage is usually something you see that isn't really there.. which kind of fits, but a Glamour usually refers to a spell cast on someone to make them appear differently then they really are which REALLY fits. It's a very subtle difference but I feel they chose the better word.

Now they might have picked commode because they were going with the original french theme (ala Armoire), and while it does inspire thoughts of toilets in my head since I grew up in the US.. I'm not really going to care what they call it as long as it's useful. I do feel "Dresser" might have been a better pick though. Or Glamour Catalogue.

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Originally Posted by Krotoan

but a Glamour usually refers to a spell cast on someone to make them appear differently then they really are which REALLY fits. It's a very subtle difference but I feel they chose the better word.

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I don't think I've ever heard glamour used that way. It makes me think of fancy fashion photography.