Oh hey it’s the biweekly post about English words being silly. Well we’ll see another in about two weeks. Or a few days.
ah, yes,
Threeway mirror anyones?
Ok but why does UW have them in its classrooms?
As a college primarily focused on educating teachers, Eau Claire housed Park Elementary, a laboratory school. Park Elementary had an unusual architectural design that included a hidden third story balcony used by professors and student teachers to observe classes.
It was a school for teaching teachers how to teach. The windows were so they could be observed without knowing it since sit in observation can change the way interactions that place.
For when Trump comes to visit
Inflammable means flammable? What a country.
Invaluable means very valuable 😭😭
Technically invaluable means “cannot be valued” but colloquially it is used as “value too high to put a number on”
That flame is retarded.
To whoever downvoted me, flame retardent is a material that doesn’t burn.
Spelling it that way is quite … developmentally delayed.
Antivenin … instead of antivenom.
Banc vs bank
say what you will, that spelling is highly regarded.
I asked my wife if we could have a three way mirror but now I sleep in the guest room.
Does your guest room have 2 mirrors then?
Just one, on the ceiling.
My wife doesn’t like the swing I installed either.
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
Probably:
- one way: only a mirror in one way (side) [and just a glass in the other way (side)]
- two way: from one side you can see both yourself and the other side [see both ways]
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
- look at your reflection
ways to look through a two way mirror
- look at your reflection
- look at the person on the other side
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?
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?)
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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I’ve always known it as a venetian mirror
Also called a pineapple because who cares anymore?
Holy compressions Batman
