It’s a terrible name. Two-way because you get the normal mirror reflection and a see-through. Should’ve just called it a see-through mirror, it would immediately make sense.
Corridor Digital mentioned them recently in one of their videos and had a 5-minute conversion on what the correct term was before finding that Wikipedia page.
I guess you can look at it from two sides (in two ways?)
Who is out here calling these “two way mirrors” and why?
It’s a terrible name. Two-way because you get the normal mirror reflection and a see-through. Should’ve just called it a see-through mirror, it would immediately make sense.
Because you can look at it two ways and see in the same direction
You can look at them from every direction, doesn’t make them every direction-mirror.
one way - see one way
two way - see two ways
two way makes way more sense.
The mirror part is only one way though.
A 2-way mirror would have a mirror on both sides.
and then there’s another part which is a different way
Two way sounds like a window.
but you can only see through a window one way.
you see through a two way mirror two different ways.
But it’s only a mirror in one of those two ways.
If it was reflective both ways then it would obviously be called a double one way mirrors. {taps head}
ways to look through a mirror
ways to look through a two way mirror
numbers don’t lie.
Are you also calling a regular mirror a one-way mirror?
Those numbers also don’t lie.
When you have two eyes you see through it twice.
but how can we see if our eyes aren’t real?
Probably:
Maybe because it can be a mirror in either direction depending on which side is lit/dark?
Corridor Digital mentioned them recently in one of their videos and had a 5-minute conversion on what the correct term was before finding that Wikipedia page.
I guess you can look at it from two sides (in two ways?)
Interestingly, this also applies to many other things, such as so called “two way walls”.
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