<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">The examples that you cite seem to suggest the difference has to do with color.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If something is “silvery”, you call it “shiny”, but if it has rich hues of its own, you call it “glossy”.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">So, what would you call silver lamé?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Gold lamé?</div><br class=""><div class="">
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jul 28, 2020, at 12:05 PM, SuStel <<a href="mailto:sustel@trimboli.name" class="">sustel@trimboli.name</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 7/28/2020 11:50 AM, Lieven L. Litaer
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<blockquote type="cite" cite="mid:b7d1be35-a589-7cb4-b6d7-01d2c11a7dae@gmx.de" class="">Am
28.07.2020 um 17:27 schrieb Will Martin:
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<blockquote type="cite" style="" class="">You can see an
image in a shiny surface (though you may need to magnify
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the surface to see that image, as in the afore-mentioned chain
mail).
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You can’t generally see distinct images on any scale in glossy
surfaces.
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This is so far the most understandable difference I've seen so far
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assuming it is correct.
</blockquote><p class="">It's not correct. <i class="">Shiny</i> refers to being bright with
reflected light, but that light doesn't have to form an image.
Here's an example of a shiny rock in which you can see no image: <a href="https://live.staticflickr.com/30/47205584_b702fca504.jpg" class="">https://live.staticflickr.com/30/47205584_b702fca504.jpg</a></p><p class="">Meanwhile, it can be possible to see images in glossy surfaces,
but it's not required. Here's an example of a glossy bowl in which
you can clearly see a reflection, but <i class="">shiny</i> would
definitely not be the first word I reached for to describe the
bowl:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://i.pinimg.com/originals/ce/bf/cd/cebfcd2baad882943314fcc8494c9def.jpg">https://i.pinimg.com/originals/ce/bf/cd/cebfcd2baad882943314fcc8494c9def.jpg</a></p><p class="">And here's an example of an obsidian ball which clearly shows
reflections, but which I certainly wouldn't call shiny:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://i.pinimg.com/originals/b5/4e/2c/b54e2ca6d37de723ccecafe1cfc78a73.jpg">https://i.pinimg.com/originals/b5/4e/2c/b54e2ca6d37de723ccecafe1cfc78a73.jpg</a><a href="https://shop.atperrys.com/products/black-obsidian-healing-gemstone?variant=12245883879486&dfw_tracker=53408-12245883879486&gclid=CjwKCAjwmf_4BRABEiwAGhDfSe9znPbD_y1GQUFOrIfgaFW01c4na4iGOXC-iA-Mc2Ugy0XHXHbpsBoCWSsQAvD_BwE" class=""></a></p>
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