Timeline for Hybrid of "can" and "may"?
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| Jul 8, 2018 at 15:19 | comment | added | tchrist♦ | One distinction often lacking in these analyses is that modals used in questions under inversion are more often in the deontic mode, while those used in simple declarative sentences can go either way but may be more likely to be in the epistemic mode. “I may dine out tonight” is merely epistemic, whereas “May I dine out tonight?” can only be deontic. | |
| Jul 7, 2018 at 20:50 | comment | added | Michael Harvey | When I was a kid in a municipal school in London for ages 5 to 7, (1957-1959) the teachers tried to make us speak 'proper', and if you asked the teacher 'Can I go to the toilet?' he or she would say 'You can but you may not'. | |
| Jul 7, 2018 at 20:42 | history | edited | herisson | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 7, 2018 at 20:36 | history | answered | herisson | CC BY-SA 4.0 |