>>>But can't usually teach you owt about our language, and I suspect it was a typo anyway :-)
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>>Usually you can out... but you just did. Have out known that 'out' qualifies as a negation...
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>Sorta. Like "He's come without his girlfriend" might be stated "He's come minus his girlfriend"

But he DID come, it's not a negation of coming. The constructions with exclusive ors are tricky in all languages, though, at least AFAIK, if not farther.

>Did you know, btw, that the negation of "can" is usually "cannot" as one word?

And, deja vu, the future tense of "to can-can" is "to be able to-be able to". Also, fish in a can is could fish.