This needs explained

[HN]

That is how I would have worded the title if not for my wife spending the last few years squashing what little Pennsylvanian dialect I still had in my speech.

Now I'm wondering if Howard is from PA.

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http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2388932

 

[MrDudeMan]

The title of this thread is a more egregious grammatical failure than anything involved with the topic.

 

[cubby1223]

When describing the position of a valve, for instance, one might say that it's "fully closed", or "fully opened". But rather frequently I see that those two opposites are "fully closed" and "fully open".

Is the latter acceptable? If so, when and where? Otherwise, why the popularity?

The latter is correct.

"close" as an adjective means near. "closed" as an adjective means shut. "closed" can also be a past participle.

"open" is the adjective meaning what you think it does. "opened" is the past tense of the verb open. "opened" can also be a past participle, but is not an adjective.


When you describe something as "open", you're describing it's physical properties. When you describe something as "opened", you're describing the action that someone or some thing did to the object.

Open & Closed are the correct pairs when you're using adjectives to describe the objects.