Standard English uses "may", "can", and "might" in different ways:
may - permission, "You may borrow my rake."
can - ability, "I can lift that log."
might - possibility, "It might rain today."
Unfortunately, in conversational English, their use is often m
On 1/31/07, Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Standard English uses "may", "can", and "might" in different ways:
may - permission, "You may borrow my rake."
can - ability, "I can lift that log."
might - possibility, "It might rain today."
Unfortunately, in conve
Andrej Ricnik-Bay wrote:
> On 1/31/07, Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Standard English uses "may", "can", and "might" in different ways:
> >
> > may - permission, "You may borrow my rake."
> >
> > can - ability, "I can lift that log."
> >
> > might - possibilit
Bruce Momjian a écrit :
Standard English uses "may", "can", and "might" in different ways:
may - permission, "You may borrow my rake."
can - ability, "I can lift that log."
might - possibility, "It might rain today."
Unfortunately, in conversational Eng
Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> >> This is not a bug, this is a definitional disagreement, and your TODO
> >> entry presupposes an answer that I don't particularly agree with.
>
> > Well, our documentation suggests thaat [1] is the same as [1:1]:
>
