comex wrote:
On Wednesday 01 August 2007, Ed Murphy wroteNeither CAN nor MAY is explicitly defined by Rule 2152, so ordinary language applies. Game custom for both is (not CANNOT) and (not MAY NOT).This is severely broken. Certainly MAY/CAN are not capitalized merely for emphasis.
They're capitalized because some of us (primarily Zefram, I think) have been preparing in advance for a presumed revision of MMI that does explicitly define CAN and MAY.