Shut it down. Shutting down.

(Shutting up?)

  • @11111one11111
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    66 days 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.”

  • Eggyhead
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    56 days ago

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

  • @over_clox
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    56 days 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.

    • @[email protected]
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      46 days 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.

  • @[email protected]
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    5 days 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

  • @[email protected]
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    46 days 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.