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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by paraphrand@lemmy.world to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world

Shut it down. Shutting down.

(Shutting up?)

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[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 26 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Telling a laptop to shut down is very different from telling it to shut up or just shut. Shutting a laptop doesn't shut it down (at least, not by default).

[-] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 8 points 2 months ago

Shutting it does shut you out though, at least until you unshut it.

[-] Ioughttamow@fedia.io 3 points 2 months ago

Not if it’s plugged into a peripheral hub

[-] slazer2au@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Stupid fast boot.

[-] i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago

Shutting down a laptop also makes it shut up!

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 4 points 2 months ago

If I close the laptop by lifting the bottom instead of lowering the top, is that also "shutting it up?" 🤔

[-] treadful@lemmy.zip 9 points 2 months ago

Shutdown is one word though.

[-] 11111one11111@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

There's so many grammatical definitions for both words I feel like there is a logical combination that makes it not redundant. With that being said they do both have I wanna say the same transitional verb definitions but both might be post-derivstive of "shut down."

[-] over_clox@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

That depends on the direction of the opening. Shut up means basically the same thing as shut down, but the hinged part operates in the opposite direction.

[-] degen@midwest.social 4 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] over_clox@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Shut the door, or close the window. Which came first, Doors or Windows?.. 🤔

[-] degen@midwest.social 3 points 2 months ago

Depends. If a room just has a hole in the wall, is it still a doorway?

[-] over_clox@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

No, that's the urinal silly!

[-] remotelove@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

So if I just kick a hole in a wall at a friends house, it's ok to pee into it as well?

[-] Ioughttamow@fedia.io 3 points 2 months ago

Doors and corners kid

[-] rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago

And I think you shut up a mountain cabin.

[-] Eggyhead@fedia.io 5 points 2 months ago

Welcome to the wonderful world of phrasal verbs, idioms, and collocations.

[-] GooberEar@lemmy.wtf 4 points 2 months ago

I'm into this. And the corollary. "Shit out" is redundant. Shit it out. Shitting out.

(Shitting in?) Makes sense in one context, but that's a completely different context than that which shitting out is typically used.

[-] EABOD25@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

We talking about the verb or the noun? I also have been look at the word "shut" too long and now it looks weird

[-] I_Clean_Here@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Lay off the ganja, man

[-] jordanlund@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago
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