YOU CAN'T HAVE YOUR CAKE AND EAT IT, TOO: The Institute for the Linguistically Impaired held a staff
meeting after a note on this phrase came from astute reader Jerry Davis, of La
Crosse, Wisconsin. We left Strunk Hall
with a resolution to advise everyone to stop using it.
While the cake saying makes sense, it causes awkwardness,
because it confuses the logical, so the hearer may have to think it out, during
which time he or she doesn't hear you.
So it impedes clear communication. Besides, we've released patients with
Logical Systems Transplants (LSTs), and they already have great trouble
understanding those who say I could care
less.
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