Mildly Interesting

23152 readers

172 users here now

This is for strictly mildly interesting material. If it's too interesting, it doesn't belong. If it's not interesting, it doesn't belong.

This is obviously an objective criteria, so the mods are always right. Or maybe mildly right? Ahh.. what do we know?

Just post some stuff and don't spam.

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

352

submitted 3 weeks ago by WhatsHerBucket@lemmy.world to c/mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world

119 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] blave@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Isn’t a two-way mirror just a window? I think you meant “one way mirror.”

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 30 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

No. English is just hella stupid. 🤣

A one-way mirror, also called two-way mirror...

[–] logicbomb@lemmy.world 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

How many ways is a normal mirror, then? Do we call it a "no way mirror"?

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

wouldn't a one-way mirror only be used "one way" and a two-way mirror be used in "two ways"?

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 11 points 3 weeks ago

While a no-way mirror is a mirror owned by a vampire.

[–] protist@mander.xyz 1 points 3 weeks ago

A one-way mirror is only one-way when the lighting conditions are correct. Otherwise you can see right through it from both sides

[–] TheFogan@programming.dev 0 points 3 weeks ago

Well I mean dictionaries. Kind of like how webster defines literally with

Definition 1: In a literal manner such as ....

Definition 2: used in an exaggerated way to emphasize a statement or description that is not literally true or possible.

[–] Beacon@fedia.io 3 points 3 weeks ago

Both terms are used