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Re:Tamil Bell by snaily on Friday March 24, 2017 @07:26AM (#13948165)
Come to Singapore - there's plenty of native English speakers here who will use "can" in the same sense!
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Re:Tamil Bell by noufalibrahim on Saturday March 25, 2017 @04:42AM (#13954649)
Oh yes. That's where I first heard it. I don't know if I'm misremembering but I think they said things like "can can" to emphasise the positive response and "no can" to indicate a negative.
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