Am 28.07.2020 um 18:05 schrieb SuStel:
/Shiny/ 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:
And I assume that rock is not considered glossy, because it's not smooth?
not required. Here's an example of a glossy bowl in which you can clearly see a reflection, but /shiny/ would definitely not be the first word I reached for to describe the bowl:
Hm. Difficult. I would have said it's shiny, but I'm not a native English speaker...
And here's an example of an obsidian ball which clearly shows reflections, but which I certainly wouldn't call shiny:
From your explanations, it seems to me that shiny always includes some brightness, right? The surface of a desert might be shiny because crystals reflect the sun somehow, but it's certainly not smooth, no glossy, right? Still, there is a lot of overlap... -- Lieven L. Litaer aka the "Klingon Teacher from Germany" http://www.tlhInganHol.com http://klingon.wiki/En/Hamletmachine