Because you can look at it two ways and see in the same direction
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dingus@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Who is out here calling these “two way mirrors” and why?
lone_faerie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 hours ago
Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de 17 hours ago
You can look at them from every direction, doesn’t make them every direction-mirror.
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Maybe because it can be a mirror in either direction depending on which side is lit/dark?
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
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.
bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world 1 day ago
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?)
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 1 day ago
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”.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 1 day ago
one way - see one way
two way - see two ways
two way makes way more sense.
snooggums@piefed.world 1 day ago
Two way sounds like a window.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 1 day ago
but you can only see through a window one way.
you see through a two way mirror two different ways.
Hawke@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
But it’s only a mirror in one of those two ways.
OutForARip@lemmy.ca 18 hours ago
When you have two eyes you see through it twice.
Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de 17 hours ago
The mirror part is only one way though.
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 17 hours ago
and then there’s another part which is a different way
randint@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 19 hours ago
Probably: