On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 12:45 AM, Michael Stahl <[email protected]> wrote: > On 12/12/2008 14:43, Nguyen Vu Hung wrote: >> >> FYI, >> >> I see a lot of "can not" in the file connectivity/source/resource.po. >> As far as I can tell, it should be "cannot". > > hmm, interesting question :) It is not a question but a proposal :D And I said, it *SHOULD* be "cannot" while both "cannot" and "can not" are understandable.
FYI, "cannot" on google: 514M hit. "can not" on google 78M hit. > actually istr both are valid... let's see... > > <quote> > The negative of the auxiliary can, cannot occurs less frequently than the > contraction can't but much more frequently than can not, which is sometimes > used for emphasis and to reflect the fact that this locution may be stressed > on the not as well as on the can. Cannot is Formal, can't relatively > Informal in writing, and can't is the more frequent in Conversational > contexts, but it is often appropriate as well even in some Oratorical uses. > All three forms are Standard. Cannot, like can't, is a very frequent > replacement for may not. > </quote> > > so, at least this site agrees with me: > http://www.bartleby.com/68/4/1104.html > > another explanation (less official-sounding): > http://alexfiles.com/cannot.shtml > > regards, > michael > > -- > "The greater point about how complexity kills you is really the profound > thing, and I have found that it takes programmers a long, long time to > truly appreciate this. They usually overestimate the amount of > complexity that can be tolerated. You can't teach this to people: they > won't believe it. They have to learn the hard way." -- Dan Weinreb > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > -- Best Regards, Nguyen Hung Vu [aka: NVH] ( in Vietnamese: Nguyễn Vũ Hưng ) vuhung16plus{[email protected] , YIM: vuhung16 , Skype: vuhung16dg A brief profile: http://www.hn.is.uec.ac.jp/~vuhung/Nguyen.Vu.Hung.html
