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Kolanaki , (edited )
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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 ,

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

Ioughttamow ,

Not if it’s plugged into a peripheral hub

i_stole_ur_taco ,

Shutting down a laptop also makes it shut up!

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

slazer2au ,

Stupid fast boot.

treadful ,
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Shutdown is one word though.

11111one11111 ,

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.”

GooberEar ,

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.

over_clox ,

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 ,

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 ,

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

Ioughttamow ,

Doors and corners kid

degen ,

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

over_clox ,

No, that’s the urinal silly!

remotelove ,
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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?

rc__buggy ,

And I think you shut up a mountain cabin.

Eggyhead , (edited )

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

jordanlund ,
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