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Subject:"May" vs. "Can" From:Richard Mateosian <srm -at- C2 -dot- ORG> Date:Sat, 12 Aug 1995 20:38:20 -0700
>I don't want to rewrite the sentence (although my fingers are itching
>to!), but I do want to change "may" to "can." Thoughts, anyone?
As far as I'm concerned, you may change "may" to "can," if you can.
A LONG time ago I had a book called "The World's Best Jokes." It was filled
with terrible stereotypes about a large variety of racial and ethnic groups.
Sad to say, some of them were pretty funny.
You can fill in the rest of the joke (from the chapter "British Jokes"), but
the punch line was:
Oh! Now I understand. We eat what we're able, but what we can't, we tin. ...RM
