paraphrand@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-28 months ago"Shut Down" is redundant.message-squaremessage-square18fedilinkarrow-up121file-text
arrow-up121message-square"Shut Down" is redundant.paraphrand@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-28 months agomessage-square18fedilinkfile-text
minus-squaredegen@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·8 months agoYeah, just shut works for either. It’s less so redundancy and more specificity. If you think about it, there’s only meaning with a frame of reference. Shutting up or shutting down could be nonsensical in the Void, as many things would be, I imagine.
minus-squaredegen@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·8 months agoDepends. If a room just has a hole in the wall, is it still a doorway?
minus-squareremotelove@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up2·8 months agoSo if I just kick a hole in a wall at a friends house, it’s ok to pee into it as well?
minus-squarerc__buggy@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up3·8 months agoAnd I think you shut up a mountain cabin.
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Yeah, just shut works for either. It’s less so redundancy and more specificity.
If you think about it, there’s only meaning with a frame of reference. Shutting up or shutting down could be nonsensical in the Void, as many things would be, I imagine.
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Depends. If a room just has a hole in the wall, is it still a doorway?
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So if I just kick a hole in a wall at a friends house, it’s ok to pee into it as well?
Doors and corners kid
And I think you shut up a mountain cabin.