the word not?
when you say,” can you not smoke here?”, does it mean can you stop smoking here?
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That’s what is sounds like to me. To me it means no smoking in that area,or room,or place.
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The person is asking if smoking is allowed in a certain area, for instance, of a restaurant. Another phrasing would be, “You can not smoke here, but you can over there.”
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It could be as others have said, but I think of it as, “would you not smoke here, it is bothering me”.
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no it means
stop smocking you son of a biscuit, dont you know its bad for your health
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That is what it means. ‘Not’ is a negative.
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yea or its polite for LEAVE or STOP
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