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Igrali mali i ja beyblade i on me pobedjuje tako za redom sest puta. Daje mi doduse slabije bayblades i ja se tu kobajagi pokunjim i pravim se da kao placem, onako protestvujem sto stalno gubim, a on ce meni :" It's ok little girl, you can not win all the time " Kazem mu ja da nisam neka mala devojcica nego njegova mama, a on ce :" Well you are smaller than my brothers."
xrofl

Mnogo je sladak :)

Can not i cannot su dva sveta.

 Da, da cannot  :), hvala .

The experts at AskOxford seem to prefer cannot:
Both cannot and can not are acceptable spellings, but the first is much more usual. You would use can not when the 'not' forms part of another construction such as 'not only.'
The Washington State University language site says:
These two spellings [cannot/can not] are largely interchangeable, but by far the most common is "cannot" and you should probably use it except when you want to be emphatic: "No, you can not wash the dog in the Maytag."
Bottom line
There's no difference in meaning between cannot and can not.

Kojesta.

"I can not go to the game if I so choose".

Oh dear!
Samo sam napisala onako kako mi je zvucalo kad mi je dete reklo, kao dve reci , ne kao jedna.

Quote from: Hate mail on April 11, 2013, 04:32:06 PM
Kojesta.

"I can not go to the game if I so choose".

Ma ne moras da ides, ko te bije po usima   :mrgreen:

"There's no difference in meaning between cannot and can not" = FALSE.

Ok ako se can not koristi samo onda ako nesto mozes da izaberes, u mom slucaju odnosno u slucaju kada mi je mali rekao you can not win all the time, da li ja imam mogucnost da izaberem da pobedim. Imam . Mogla sam da uzmem bolji badeblade , da ga launch bolje , itd. Prema tome can not je ispravno.

The two forms mean the same thing, so we should just pick one and use it.

The point of grammar is to make sense, and making "cannot vs. can not" an either-or situation ignores the logic of the words themselves. They are two different forms, and therefore necessarily mean different things. "Cannot" means it cannot happen at all. There isn't a "can" option to contrast to it. I cannot go back in time, for example. The reason we don't have an equivalent "shouldnot" or "mightnot" is because the essence of should and might doesn't lend itself to this option. "Can," though, readily implies its absolute opposite.

"Can not" means it might happen; it can happen, or it can not happen. I can not post this comment if I choose. If you might not do a thing, then you can choose not to do it. So a person can say, with perfect consistency, "I can not do that, therefore I might not do that."

The very fact there is such a debate over this should be taken as a symptom that there's a problem with the either-or scenario. It simply doesn't make sense to restrict the language artificially, in order to force an illogical rule (whichever rule you learned). If it doesn't make sense, it's not good grammar.

can't

Quote from: ? on April 11, 2013, 06:42:39 PM
can't

xrofl xremyb

Quote from: Hate mail on April 11, 2013, 04:46:43 PM
"There's no difference in meaning between cannot and can not" = FALSE.

smarty pants  :)