Douglas_Knight comments on AALWA: Ask any LessWronger anything - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Douglas_Knight 13 January 2014 06:06:26PM 1 point [-]

an inability to can

What does it mean "to can"?
Two uses spring to my mind: to discard material (as in "trashcan"); to declare work done (somehow from "film canister").

Comment author: Alicorn 13 January 2014 09:09:46PM 3 points [-]

It's an internet-dialect neologism. Related to "I can't" without any subsequent verb, evolved into "I have lost the ability to can" etc.