• corsicanguppy
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    5 months ago

    shutdown

    ‘shut down’, here. ‘Shutdown’ is a noun missing a hyphen.

    • FQQD@lemmy.ohaa.xyzOP
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      5 months ago

      Oh no, a non-english speaker did something that could barely be called a spelling mistake! I’m so sorry for writing “shutdown” instead of “shut down”. 🙏

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        5 months ago

        They don’t have to. In fact, it makes more sense for them to be out the quote, unless they’re part of the quote. Many writers use commas outside of the enclosement of the quotation marks. I do

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      MFW I say more than “L2S” and get downvoted by projectors.