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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2015-11-07 03:39 pm

[ SECRET POST #3230 ]


⌈ Secret Post #3230 ⌋

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Re: Skills you have that you'd gladly trade away or never use?

[personal profile] dreemyweird 2015-11-07 10:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh Jesus, tumblr has damaged me forever. I read "I know how to can stuff" and thought you were talking about being able to motivate yourself.

Re: Skills you have that you'd gladly trade away or never use?

(Anonymous) 2015-11-07 10:07 pm (UTC)(link)
ayrt

Lol what? I've never heard that before.
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Re: Skills you have that you'd gladly trade away or never use?

[personal profile] dreemyweird 2015-11-07 10:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Basically, some people use "can" as a non-modal verb meaning roughly "to be able to respond to a situation adequately, to use something in an efficient way". Thus, you get sentences like "I can't even", "I can't words", and "I've lost all ability to can".

You kind of forget that there's a perfectly normal non-modal verb "to can" meaning something entirely different...