I cannot make sense of this quote by Virginia Woolf in "The Waves"
The only prenatal appointment I really wanted him at was the anatomy ultrasound and my insurance will only pay for it of we do it at the hospital my husband works at which is not letting in "visitors" including dads. I'm emotional already and the thought of having to do the US without my other half makes me terribly upset and sad.
It might take two to make the baby, but nobody is going to be shoving an ultrasound wand up his dick. You get to make the call about who's in the room for your doctor's appointments, and your SO needs a reminder about boundaries.
Generally, people use can't in speech and informal writing, and cannot or can not in formal writing or very formal speech. Also (as @Kris points out in a comment), cannot might be used when you need to carefully distinguish it from can't in speech.
differences - When to use "cannot" versus "can't"? - English Language ...
The phrase "can not" may mean "cannot" or "can't," but it also may mean "able not to," which is much different than "not able to" as it conveys the ability to not do something rather than the inability to do it.
So here it’s about minimizing ambiguity: can not permits two interpretations, while cannot permits only one. Such care is critical in the language of mathematics. As another example, West would tell you that in mathematical discourse, both “x is a minimum” and “x is a minimal” are valid utterances, but they mean different things.
Why is “cannot” spelled as one word whereas other similar constructions such as “do not,” “will not,” “shall not,” “may not” and “must not” are spelled as two words (unless they are contracted as “...
Why is “cannot” spelled as one word? - English Language & Usage ...
So, "cannot" means something (denoted S) is impossible, while "can not" means the inverse of that something (denoted !S) is possible. These two statements do not imply each other. Of course, the second statement could be rendered much more clearly as "The variable can be not initialized," by moving the "not" next to the word being negated.
Cannot is the only negative form that contains not rather than -n't. Theoretically, since it is a single word, you can say why cannot you... without a problem. My theory is that modern English speakers don't want to put cannot before the subject because it contains not and sounds like can not.
grammaticality - Is it incorrect to say, "Why cannot....?" - English ...
The irony of the idiom is that one would expect to be able to eat the cake that he or she owned. In that case, possession of the cake would logically come before usage of the cake: You cannot have your cake and eat it, too. Some other interesting observations: Paul Brians, Professor of English at Washington State University, points out that perhaps a more logical or easier to understand ...
You cannot "eat your cake and have it" or "have your cake and eat it"?
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-1 Saying that something "cannot be overstated" is exaggeration and clearly never true, because anything can be overstated. (You just keep repeating that thing to the exclusion of everything else: now it is overstated.) So is using this phrase sloppy writing, or is it a well-understood phase that no longer means what it appears to mean?
word usage - Is "Cannot be overstated" sloppy writing? - English ...
In "The Waves", page 74 in Wordsworth Editions Limited (2000), Virginia Woolf writes Veined as I am with iron, with silver and streaks of common mud, I cannot contract into the firm fist...
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For every appointment they call a week before and cancel/reschedule the appointment which is so annoying. I chose that practice due to a doctor and everytime my appointment with her gets cancelled and they put me in with some nurse practitioner.
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