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?)
Itâs a terrible name. Two-way because you get the normal mirror reflection and a see-through. Shouldâve just called it a see-through mirror, it would immediately make sense.
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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Gork@sopuli.xyz · 119 pts · 158d
Inflammable means flammable? What a country.
DakRalter@thelemmy.club · 48 pts · 158d
Invaluable means very valuable đđ
JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 158d
Technically invaluable means âcannot be valuedâ but colloquially it is used as âvalue too high to put a number onâ
stupidcasey@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 158d
That flame is retarded.
To whoever downvoted me, flame retardent is a material that doesn't burn.
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 158d
Spelling it that way is quite ... developmentally delayed.
_stranger_@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 158d
say what you will, that spelling is highly regarded.
EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com · 1 pts · 157d
Antivenin ... instead of antivenom.
Banc vs bank
smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works · 52 pts · 158d
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 pts · 158d
Does your guest room have 2 mirrors then?
smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 157d
Just one, on the ceiling.
My wife doesn't like the swing I installed either.
dingus@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 158d
Who is out here calling these "two way mirrors" and why?
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 158d
one way - see one way
two way - see two ways
two way makes way more sense.
snooggums@piefed.world · 15 pts · 158d
Two way sounds like a window.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 158d
but you can only see through a window one way.
you see through a two way mirror two different ways.
Hawke@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 158d
But itâs only a mirror in one of those two ways.
D_C@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 158d
If it was reflective both ways then it would obviously be called a double one way mirrors. {taps head}
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 158d
ways to look through a mirror
ways to look through a two way mirror
numbers don't lie.
Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 158d
Are you also calling a regular mirror a one-way mirror?
Those numbers also don't lie.
OutForARip@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 158d
When you have two eyes you see through it twice.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 158d
but how can we see if our eyes aren't real?
randint@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz · 2 pts · 158d
Probably:
Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 158d
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 pts · 158d
and then there's another part which is a different way
lone_faerie@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 8 pts · 158d
Because you can look at it two ways and see in the same direction
Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 158d
You can look at them from every direction, doesn't make them every direction-mirror.
Passerby6497@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 158d
Maybe because it can be a mirror in either direction depending on which side is lit/dark?
bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 158d
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 pts · 158d
Interestingly, this also applies to many other things, such as so called "two way walls".
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 158d
Itâs a terrible name. Two-way because you get the normal mirror reflection and a see-through. Shouldâve just called it a see-through mirror, it would immediately make sense.
glibg10b@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 158d
aeronmelon@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 158d
Also called a pineapple because who cares anymore?
carpelbridgesyndrome@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 158d
Ok but why does UW have them in its classrooms?
Madison420@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 157d
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 pts · 158d
For when Trump comes to visit
postmateDumbass@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 158d
Threeway mirror anyones?
UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 158d
Holy compressions Batman
logi@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 157d
citation needed
SchwertImStein@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 158d
I've always known it as a venetian mirror
buffalobuffalo@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 0 pts · 157d
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 pts · 157d
probablymissing@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 157d
ah, yes,