paraphrand@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-26 days 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-26 days agomessage-square21fedilinkfile-text
minus-squaredegenlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·6 days 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-up3·6 days agoShut the door, or close the window. Which came first, Doors or Windows?.. 🤔
minus-squaredegenlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·6 days agoDepends. If a room just has a hole in the wall, is it still a doorway?
minus-squareremotelove@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up2·6 days 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