June 18, 2003

Can not, can't, cannot

So, a couple of word issues have been brought to my attention. One is the use of the phrase "can not". Since it is not acceptable in formal writing to use contractions, can't, the space between "can" and "not" should be removed to make "cannot". This looks even worse than "can't". What are people thinking?

The other is the use of one of my favorite words "funner". You know, fun, funner, funnest. If some thing is fun the something else could be funner.

Posted by Jeff at June 18, 2003 01:42 PM