Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 6 Mar 2003 23:48:12 +0100 | From | Tomas Szepe <> | Subject | re: [PATCH] Fix breakage caused by spelling 'fix' |
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> [john@grabjohn.com] > > > > This fixes a spelling "fix" that resulted in a compile error. > > > With apologies to Russell King. > > > diff -ur a/include/asm-arm/proc-fns.h b/include/asm-arm/proc-fns.h > > > --- a/include/asm-arm/proc-fns.h Tue Mar 4 19:29:20 2003 > > > +++ b/include/asm-arm/proc-fns.h Thu Mar 6 11:46:15 2003 > > > @@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ > > > > > > #if 0 > > > * The following is to fool mkdep into generating the correct > > > - * dependencies. Without this, it can't figure out that this > > > + * dependencies. Without this, it cant figure out that this > > A spelling fix should be a right spelling fix ;) > > > > So either "cannot" or "can not" but not "cant" :) > > "Can not" is technically wrong.
While "can not" is not necessarily bad English, it's uncommon and should probably be avoided, because its use might produce sentences ambivalent in meaning.
<quote> Can/could: modal auxiliary verbs -- ... h/ contracted negative forms are "can't" and "couldn't." Cannot is usually written as one word. </quote> Swan, Michael: Practical English Usage Oxford University Press, Second Edition, 1995 p. 104, item 122
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