Monty - I rather like to see ‘misspelling’ misspelled. The appropriateness (SP? Urgh) simply tickles me.
‘They couldn’t hit an Elephant from this dist…!’
Last words of General John Sedgwick
Has the term “can not” always been an acceptable substitute for “cannot?” Semantically, “can not” should mean “could possibly not,” as opposed to “could not possibly.” For example, “I can not tell a lie” should mean “It is within my power to refrain from telling lies – but it is not my only option.” Right?
I think they made “can not” acceptable because that’s what they wrote on the Lincoln Memorial as part of their engraving of the Gettysburg Address. It’s all a government conspiracy.
Wordsmith: One of the elite few who knows that George Herbert Walker Bush was a Huge Berserk Rebel Warthog.