“I think yes because having to manually go and create a room is more time consuming, but the trade off is having dead sublemmys creating dead chatrooms.”

I’ve read through a few articles on whether to use of vs off and I don’t understand. Am I using the right off in this statement?

Any tricks to remember?

  • triplenadir@lemmygrad.ml
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    3 years ago

    Interesting question, never thought about it 🤔

    “Trade off” seems right here to me, I wouldn’t know what “trade of” meant there.

    “Off” is about movement or position, it’s the opposite of “on”. In “trade off” it seems to work the same way as “stand off” or “face off” or “dance off”, where it’s 2 things being set against each other.

    “Of” is … weirdly hard to categorise, I’m looking at a dictionary with 12 definitions listed 😖 Usually I see it meaning “about” or “in”, so it usually needs an object - id you do a web search for " trade of" you’ll see it’s like “trade of 20 most traded products” or “trade of cars” or something

    EDIT or maybe - trade off is always spelt like “trade offer” - even though that’s not what it means, maybe it helps to remember the spelling 😃