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"Don't" or "Can't"

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  • freakybacon
    freakybacon Posts: 1,143 Forumite
    How about if you don't want or need to learn to drive? Maybe you live in a big city such as London with decent public transport? A driving licence may be a waste of time and money if it is not needed. Or how about - like "ourlass" marks 1 &2 seduced an unwitting man with your feminine wiles who is dumb enough to chauffeur you about? New, improved "ourlass mk3" came with driving licence...
    "In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act. "

    George Orwell
  • Harry_Flashman
    Harry_Flashman Posts: 1,922 Forumite
    mikey72 wrote: »
    How do you know you can't?

    Trust me on this - I know ;)
  • fluffymuffy
    fluffymuffy Posts: 3,424 Forumite
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    SailorSam wrote: »
    When we were growing up as kids my Mum always use to tell us there's no such word as can't.

    I never understood that. Of course there's such a word as "can't".
    I am the Cat who walks alone
  • jase1
    jase1 Posts: 2,308 Forumite
    SailorSam wrote: »
    When we were growing up as kids my Mum always use to tell us there's no such word as can't.

    So there is hope for teaching my cat to drive then?
  • Kilty_2
    Kilty_2 Posts: 5,818 Forumite
    Definitely can't

    Despite having a licence. :rotfl: :o
  • bartman
    bartman Posts: 325 Forumite
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    "Don't" means "banned" in many cases!
  • shaun_from_Africa
    shaun_from_Africa Posts: 12,858 Forumite
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    I don't drive a lorry in the UK although I do in some other countries. (ones that you don't need a specific category on your driving licence).
    So although I can't legally drive one on the road in the UK, I can physically do so, so to state that I can't wouldn't be technically correct as I can, just not on the public highway or other public areas.
  • LandyAndy
    LandyAndy Posts: 26,377 Forumite
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    shaun_from_Africa wrote: »
    I don't drive a lorry in the UK although I do in some other countries. (ones that you don't need a specific category on your driving licence).
    So although I can't legally drive one on the road in the UK, I can physically do so, so to state that I can't wouldn't be technically correct as I can, just not on the public highway or other public areas.

    Isn't that the difference between 'can't' and 'may not' rather than that between 'can't' and 'don't'?
  • SailorSam
    SailorSam Posts: 22,754 Forumite
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    fluffymuffy wrote: »
    I never understood that. Of course there's such a word as "can't".

    Try telling my Mother there's no such word when you've told her you can't clean your own shoes.
    Liverpool is one of the wonders of Britain,
    What it may grow to in time, I know not what.

    Daniel Defoe: 1725.
  • Flying-High_2
    Flying-High_2 Posts: 761 Forumite
    We have a guy in work... He can shunt Artics around all day long.... Doesnt have a car license and rocks up on a BMX each evening...

    He can but he cant.
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