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Your example is incorrect

"transparency: 1" != "opacity: 1"

We use transparency in the US. Transparency is how much light passes through an object and Opacity is how much it blocks.

so:

"transparency: 1" == "opacity: 0"

Funny enough, the example is ambiguous since:

"transparency: 0.5" == "opacity: 0.5"

Yeah, when I caught that, I thought that it might just be semantic trolling! (a terrible variant)

ooohh, devious!

If you ask what the difference is between ‘transparent’ and ‘opaque’, most people will answer correctly. If you append –y, people somehow get confused.

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