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[–] Gork@sopuli.xyz 115 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Inflammable means flammable? What a country.

[–] DakRalter@thelemmy.club 48 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Invaluable means very valuable 😭😭

[–] JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world 29 points 1 month ago

Technically invaluable means β€œcannot be valued” but colloquially it is used as β€œvalue too high to put a number on”

[–] stupidcasey@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

That flame is retarded.

To whoever downvoted me, flame retardent is a material that doesn't burn.

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Spelling it that way is quite ... developmentally delayed.

[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

say what you will, that spelling is highly regarded.

Antivenin ... instead of antivenom.

Banc vs bank

[–] smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works 52 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Does your guest room have 2 mirrors then?

[–] smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

Just one, on the ceiling.

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

[–] dingus@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago (6 children)

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

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago (3 children)

one way - see one way

two way - see two ways

two way makes way more sense.

[–] snooggums@piefed.world 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Two way sounds like a window.

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

but you can only see through a window one way.

you see through a two way mirror two different ways.

[–] Hawke@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

[–] D_C@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago

If it was reflective both ways then it would obviously be called a double one way mirrors. {taps head}

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

ways to look through a mirror

  1. look at your reflection

ways to look through a two way mirror

  1. look at your reflection
  2. look at the person on the other side

numbers don't lie.

[–] Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 month ago

Are you also calling a regular mirror a one-way mirror?

Those numbers also don't lie.

[–] OutForARip@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

When you have two eyes you see through it twice.

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

but how can we see if our eyes aren't real?

[–] Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

The mirror part is only one way though.

A 2-way mirror would have a mirror on both sides.

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

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]
[–] lone_faerie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 month ago

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

[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

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

[–] bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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 6 points 1 month 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".

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.

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago

Also called a pineapple because who cares anymore?

[–] carpelbridgesyndrome@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Ok but why does UW have them in its classrooms?

[–] Madison420@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month 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.

[–] Hiro8811@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

For when Trump comes to visit

[–] postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Threeway mirror anyones?

[–] UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Holy compressions Batman

[–] logi@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

citation needed

I've always known it as a venetian mirror

[–] buffalobuffalo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] GreenDust@lemmings.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] probablymissing@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

ah, yes, . my favorite.