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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 7/28/2020 9:08 AM, Lieven L. Litaer
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cite="mid:26c1d392-158e-a16e-0b6b-9132c24259d2@gmx.de">Am
28.07.2020 um 14:53 schrieb SuStel:
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Thanks, that looks useful, but still doesn't help, because there
is
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overlap in meaning.
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When I read "reflective surface" I think of a blade, which is
{boch}.
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And a glossy surface might still be reflecting light, does it not?
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That's what the wikipeida article explains as well....
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Does maybe "glossy" refer to the surface quality, while "shiny"
says
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what it does? So could I say that a glossy surface is shiny?
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<p>Being shiny is just one quality of a glossy surface. Something
glossy is also smooth and silk-like. Not everything that is shiny
is smooth and silk-like. A full-color, high-quality magazine is
shiny, smooth, and silk-like (hence their informal name, <i>glossies</i>).
A suit of mail may be shiny, but it is not smooth or silk-like,
and so it isn't glossy. The side of a blade will be smooth and
shiny, but not silk-like, so it's not glossy</p>
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