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The single word form is a noun: "Please start the shutdown of the computer."
The separate word form is the verb: "I will shut down the computer."
Same goes for "Log in" versus "Login", and "Back up" versus "Backup".
So the survey question should read:
"Do you shut down your computer overnight?"
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"All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing" -- Edmund Burke
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Oh, shutup.
regards,
Paul Watson
Ireland & South Africa
Shog9 wrote: And with that, Paul closed his browser, sipped his herbal tea, fixed the flower in his hair, and smiled brightly at the multitude of cute, furry animals flocking around the grassy hillside where he sat coding Ruby on his Mac...
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or should that be shut up
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That was the wholepoint. He was using sar casm.
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What about shut-up (with a hyphen)? Or, if you are text messaging can you use…"su" or "stfu"?
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Paul Watson wrote: up
Good antonym of down .
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Well, I'd love to answer it, but im awake overnight - so I shut it down over-morning, ;P
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I maintain about 30 PC's a a private school and I try to have the staff shut douwn in the evenings. In a dusty environment having then run 24/7 sucks in a lot more dust into the cases than running 8/5.
Jay
Springfield, IL
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to shutdown
I shutdown
you shutdown
he shutdowns
we shutdown
you shutdown
they shutdown
Works perfectly no ?
V.
If I don't see you in this world, I'll see you in the next one... And don't be late. (Jimi Hendrix)
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Welcome to english.
regards,
Paul Watson
Ireland & South Africa
Shog9 wrote: And with that, Paul closed his browser, sipped his herbal tea, fixed the flower in his hair, and smiled brightly at the multitude of cute, furry animals flocking around the grassy hillside where he sat coding Ruby on his Mac...
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