Ambiguous?  Deal with it, as with many things
in English (and other natural languages), from context.



----- Original Message -----
From: bill lam <[email protected]>
Date: Thursday, September 3, 2009 18:53
Subject: Re: [Jchat] Description of J
To: [email protected]

> I guess while 'cannot' is old-style but 'can not' may be 
> ambiguous, eg
>   I cannot agree
>   I can not agree
> 
> the second sentence may mean I have the option of 'not agree', 
> may be
> in newspeak
>   I can notagree
> 
> On Thu, 03 Sep 2009, Roger Hui wrote:
> > I myself have been on a crusade to replace "cannot" by "can not".
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