Thien-Thi Nguyen  <ttn@glug.org> wrote:
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| Will Deakin <anisotropy9@hotmail.com> writes:
| 
| > Yes. I would say that the `haven't to do x' is the opposite of `have
| > to do x' and means 'must not do x.'
| 
| probably you mean "need not do x":
| 
|   i haven't a thing to do today.
|   ===
|   i need not do anything today.  
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I agree. To my ear [raised in southeastern U.S.], "haven't to do x"
means "I have no obligation to do X" or even "X is not one of the
things I have in my list of things to do". Ditto "don't have to do X".

To me, the command negative of "have to do X" is "must not do X".


-Rob

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