Comment on What's in a name

dingus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  one way - see one way

  two way - see two ways

  two way makes way more sense.

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  • snooggums@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Two way sounds like a window.

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    • 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.

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      • Hawke@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        But it’s only a mirror in one of those two ways.

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      • OutForARip@lemmy.ca ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        When you have two eyes you see through it twice.

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  • Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The mirror part is only one way though.

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    • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      and then there’s another part which is a different way

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  • randint@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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]

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• lone_faerie@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Because you can look at it two ways and see in the same direction

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  • Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You can look at them from every direction, doesn’t make them every direction-mirror.

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• Passerby6497@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Maybe because it can be a mirror in either direction depending on which side is lit/dark?

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• 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.

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• 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?)

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  • 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”.

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