“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?

  • mekhos
    6·
    3 years ago

    Yes, correct although in the case you have used I think it should be “trade-off”. I’ve seen more misuse of these words recently similar to there, their, and they’re.

    The way to remember the difference is that;

    off reflects a reduction or absence (even though it has more letters!)

    It is time to turn the light off

    of is used when you provide additional data or description to something.

    today is the third day of the week

    • Slatlun
      4·
      3 years ago

      This is totally right. Also, ‘off’ is used in a lot ways that don’t follow easy rules, but ‘of’ is used pretty much by its definition. As a rule to remember, I would use ‘off’ if I am not sure.

  • triplenadir@lemmygrad.ml
    2·
    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 😃