bill lam wrote: > 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". >> I'm [I am] gonna [going to] report each [both] of you you to the apostrophe police!
Can't or [colloquially] c ain't is DIALECT and normal speech in the US, CA and UK. Nobody in the anglosphere would ever confuse the written or spoken versions of your communique. Computer [computor?] language fans should use the wisdom of knowing the difference between living human language and artificial languages. Jim ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
