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Date:      Mon, 18 Nov 2002 13:59:28 +0100
From:      Robert Drehmel <robert@ferrari-electronic.de>
To:        marius@alchemy.franken.de
Cc:        Maho Nakata <maho@FreeBSD.ORG>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, alexander@leidinger.net
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/lang/ifc Makefile pkg-comment pkg-descr pkg-plist ports/lang/ifc/files assert_fail.c cpio-exclude cxa_atexit.c cxa_finalize.c errno_location.c ld.c linux_file.c mcount.S patch-aa patch-ifc stderr.c sysconf.c
Message-ID:  <20021118135928.A18367@alpha.develop.ferrari.net>
In-Reply-To: <20021118115407.GQ89667@newtrinity.zeist.de>
References:  <200211180927.gAI9RWOa074354@repoman.freebsd.org> <20021118115407.GQ89667@newtrinity.zeist.de>

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Hello.

On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 12:54:07PM +0100, marius@alchemy.franken.de wrote:
> btw., i'm no native english speaker but to my best knowledge and accoring
> to my grammar-books the negated forms of "can" are "can't" and "cannot"
> but not "can not".

``can not'' is as valid as ``cannot'' and ``can't'', whereas
``can not'' is sometimes to emphasize the negation.

ciao,
-robert

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