paraphrand@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-23 months ago"Shut Down" is redundant.message-squaremessage-square21fedilinkarrow-up120arrow-down120file-text
arrow-up10arrow-down1message-square"Shut Down" is redundant.paraphrand@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-23 months agomessage-square21fedilinkfile-text
minus-squaredegenlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 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-squareover_clox@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·3 months agoShut the door, or close the window. Which came first, Doors or Windows?.. 🤔
minus-squaredegenlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 months agoDepends. If a room just has a hole in the wall, is it still a doorway?
minus-squareremotelove@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 months agoSo if I just kick a hole in a wall at a friends house, it’s ok to pee into it as well?
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.
Shut the door, or close the window. Which came first, Doors or Windows?.. 🤔
Depends. If a room just has a hole in the wall, is it still a doorway?
No, that’s the urinal silly!
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