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[-] Kolanaki@pawb.social 32 points 10 months ago

No. English is just hella stupid. 🤣

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

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-way_mirror

[-] logicbomb@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

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

[-] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

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 10 months ago

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

[-] protist@mander.xyz 1 points 10 months 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 10 months 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.

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