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sigmaleph ([personal profile] sigmaleph) wrote2019-07-01 11:28 am
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i can't help but read the construction 'can not do X' as meaning something entirely different from 'cannot/can't do X'. the first means X is optional and the second means it is impossible or forbidden

i'm pretty sure this is not what people have in mind when they fail to contract 'can not'

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