Comment on Why do we say, "when I look in the mirror" instead of "when I look in a mirror?"

Bolt@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Maybe there’s a cultural idea about mirrors being somehow “the same”. After all, a mirror shows the same thing regardless of which one it is. Or related in cultural mythology to a singular adjoining world that contains your doppelganger (in such media, you don’t usually have a separate mirror self for every mirror, but one that can be accessed from any mirror). Also could be a turn of phrase that stuck without a good reason.

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