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GlassHalfHopeful@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

Today, I combined “deadzone” and revised it later to “dead zone” when I saw it written that way in other sources. No idea what’s correct because I don’t think it’s commonly used in many contexts.

All that to say–language is a human construct. Rules are made. Rules are broken.

I don’t know if there’s any actual rules on this in English, but I’m interested to find out. And then… I’ll do what I want anyway. 🙃

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otp@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Deadzone feels right to me. Dead zone feels like it should be a zone that died.

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- HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Deadzone is for adjectives, dead zone for nouns
  
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  - otp@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Interesting! How would “deadzone” be used, in that case?
    
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    HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Like, describing the dead zone on a controller? The deadzone range? I dunno I’m pulling it out of my ass, like most language is generated
    
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- GlassHalfHopeful@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Don’t worry, when I integrate into my software next week, i will certainly call it a deadzone. 😁
  
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