Timeline for What is a one syllable word for "could not"?
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| May 26, 2016 at 16:27 | comment | added | Mitch | I hope you'll give @Silenus co-authorship. | |
| May 26, 2016 at 13:35 | comment | added | OrangeDog | Perhaps technically not, but in this piece of poetry it is closer in its sense of uncertainty to could than can. | |
| May 26, 2016 at 13:31 | comment | added | DyingIsFun | @OrangeDog, is shan't subjunctive? Further, isn't shan't only for 1st person pronouns like I and we? I think that the alliteration and naturalness of can't beats anything shan't offers, but to each his/her own. | |
| May 26, 2016 at 13:24 | comment | added | OrangeDog | IMO shan't would be a better choice, retaining the subjunctive mood. | |
| May 26, 2016 at 11:03 | history | edited | DyingIsFun | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 26, 2016 at 10:59 | comment | added | DyingIsFun | Another suggestion is to consider removing the 's' from 'bricks', rendering the phrase 'brick and mortar' (two mass nouns). I think the line sounds better without the sibilance (despite the fact that line 1 is highly sibilant). But that's probably highly subjective so do what you think is best. | |
| May 26, 2016 at 10:56 | comment | added | Oreo | Thanks for the alternate line though, that helped a lot. | |
| May 26, 2016 at 10:49 | history | edited | DyingIsFun | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 26, 2016 at 10:45 | comment | added | DyingIsFun | Fair enough. But given it's a relative clause, "can't" works fine without distorting the meaning. | |
| May 26, 2016 at 10:43 | history | edited | DyingIsFun | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 26, 2016 at 10:43 | comment | added | Oreo | I am looking for past tense verbs. | |
| May 26, 2016 at 10:41 | history | answered | DyingIsFun | CC BY-SA 3.0 |