Dodi Schultz
August 23rd, 2005, 12:13 AM
Dan says,
>> > If the messages were *mirrored*, wouldn't they appear drawkcab? <
>>
>> Unless the mirror was arranged above or below the messages, in which
>> case they would appear umop apisdn.
Hm. Guess so. Hadn't thought of that. But still inaccurate, then.
>> But if you arrange two (or any even number) mirrors, they reverse
>> the reversal and you get a normal image. SLR cameras and submarine
>> periscopes are examples of this. :)
That is a true fact. So they should be called bimirrored.
>> Really, I think we're using it in the sense of "mirror site", as
>> AHD4 defines it. http://www.bartleby.com/61/68/M0326850.html
I have the book. I don't need no steenkin' Website. (Although, yeah, I've
got Bartleby bookmarked.) Anyway, it goes to show you what happens when
programmers instead of English-speakers devise names for things. ;-)
--Dodi
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>> > If the messages were *mirrored*, wouldn't they appear drawkcab? <
>>
>> Unless the mirror was arranged above or below the messages, in which
>> case they would appear umop apisdn.
Hm. Guess so. Hadn't thought of that. But still inaccurate, then.
>> But if you arrange two (or any even number) mirrors, they reverse
>> the reversal and you get a normal image. SLR cameras and submarine
>> periscopes are examples of this. :)
That is a true fact. So they should be called bimirrored.
>> Really, I think we're using it in the sense of "mirror site", as
>> AHD4 defines it. http://www.bartleby.com/61/68/M0326850.html
I have the book. I don't need no steenkin' Website. (Although, yeah, I've
got Bartleby bookmarked.) Anyway, it goes to show you what happens when
programmers instead of English-speakers devise names for things. ;-)
--Dodi
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