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This is a grammatical nitpick, but I see it over and over and over. The title says "When Will Google Shutdown Stadia?" It should be "Shut Down", which is a ve
by tasty_freeze 7y ago
This is a grammatical nitpick, but I see it over and over and over.
The title says "When Will Google Shutdown Stadia?"
It should be "Shut Down", which is a verb phrase. A "Shutdown" is a noun, eg, "There will be a shutdown in March."
Another common example of this:
You need to log in. (long in == verb)
What is your login. (login == noun)
- gilrain 7y agoEmbrace descriptivism or be forever an annoyed curmudgeon.
- nguoi 7y agoI don't understand the internet's new obsession with descriptivism. Yes, it's English, in a circular-argument kind of way, but that doesn't make it good style. The whole takeaway from it seems to be that self-described descriptivists intentionally use non-standard definitions of words then blame the other party for misunderstanding, making the writer fail at the primary goal of communication. And that is literally ridiculous.
- tandr 7y ago"I think your post has a grammatical error."