From: PointedEars@web.de   
      
   Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:   
   > However, while I found evidence that "can not" does not mean the same thing   
   > as "cannot/can't", e.g. [1], I found no evidence yet to support my claim   
   > that "can not" means "not allowed to".  I remember vividly to having been   
   > told this in at least one English class, and at least two of my teachers   
   > were native speakers, so there might be something to it.  In any case,   
   > googling for 'What is the difference between "cannot" and "can not"?' yields   
   > interesting results.  And there is a lot to be said about spurious rules for   
   > English that grammarians simply invented out of their own preferences   
   > instead of deriving it from actual usage:   
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