@[email protected] to No Stupid [email protected] • 1 year agoWhy do we say, "when I look in the mirror" instead of "when I look in a mirror?"message-square47fedilinkarrow-up1128
arrow-up1128message-squareWhy do we say, "when I look in the mirror" instead of "when I look in a mirror?"@[email protected] to No Stupid [email protected] • 1 year agomessage-square47fedilink
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•edit-21 year agoI feel like it has to do with the “mystical” or metaphorical perception of mirrors, especially early on. Like, as if looking “into a mirror” is analogous to looking “into a (or rather: the) mirror world”, if that makes sense. Kind of the same reason we use the preposition “in” or “into” rather than the more physically correct “at”.
I feel like it has to do with the “mystical” or metaphorical perception of mirrors, especially early on.
Like, as if looking “into a mirror” is analogous to looking “into a (or rather: the) mirror world”, if that makes sense.
Kind of the same reason we use the preposition “in” or “into” rather than the more physically correct “at”.