What's in a name

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• Gork@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Inflammable means flammable? What a country.

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  • DakRalter@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Invaluable means very valuable 😭😭

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    • JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Technically invaluable means “cannot be valued” but colloquially it is used as “value too high to put a number on”

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  • stupidcasey@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    That flame is retarded.

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    • HugeNerd@lemmy.ca ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Spelling it that way is quite … developmentally delayed.

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• smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I asked my wife if we could have a three way mirror but now I sleep in the guest room.

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  • Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Does your guest room have 2 mirrors then?

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    • smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Just one, on the ceiling.

      My wife doesn’t like the swing I installed either.

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• logi@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  citation needed

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• carpelbridgesyndrome@sh.itjust.works ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Ok but why does UW have them in its classrooms?

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  • Madison420@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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.

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  • Hiro8811@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    For when Trump comes to visit

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• postmateDumbass@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Threeway mirror anyones?

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• dingus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Who is out here calling these “two way mirrors” and why?

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  • 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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    • Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The mirror part is only one way though.

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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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• aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Also called a pineapple because who cares anymore?

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• buffalobuffalo@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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.

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  • GreenDust@lemmings.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Image

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    • probablymissing@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Image ah, yes, . my favorite.

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• UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Holy compressions Batman

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• SchwertImStein@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’ve always known it as a venetian mirror

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