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Mar. 3rd, 2008 04:43 pm
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I don't want to have my cake and eat it, too. Everyone does that. It's a bit difficult to eat a cake if you don't have it.

I want to eat it _and still have it_.

(some common sayings _REALLY MAKE NO SENSE_)

Date: 2008-03-03 09:50 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] the-xtina.livejournal.com
The thing is, in the first sentence, you're using "and" to mean "and then".  Really, it means at the same time - to possess it and at the same time to consume it.

I could've sworn it started out the other way around (eat and have, not have and eat), but I can't find info on it easily.

Date: 2008-03-03 09:50 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] the-xtina.livejournal.com
Ah (http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-hav2.htm)!

Date: 2008-03-03 09:52 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wispfox.livejournal.com
You just made my day. :) Because I can spell.

Date: 2008-03-04 03:49 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] brynndragon.livejournal.com
Oh! Oh! Meme mutation! In the wild! That's so nifty (and effectively demonstrates why mutations aren't usually helpful ;P).

Date: 2008-03-04 02:56 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wispfox.livejournal.com
*highly amused* Yay, interesting data! :)

Date: 2008-03-06 03:17 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] madbodger.livejournal.com
I wonder if a similar process led to "head over heels" being such.

Date: 2008-03-03 09:51 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wispfox.livejournal.com
could've sworn it started out the other way around (eat and have, not have and eat), but I can't find info on it easily.

Really? Now, see, if that were true, I would be much less randomly annoyed. :)

Date: 2008-03-04 12:24 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] alandd.livejournal.com
Trust me, if I eat a piece of cake, I "have" it for years... ;-)

Correct

Date: 2008-03-04 03:58 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] staircasewriter.livejournal.com
The adage has switched over the years. Your version, "Eat your cake and have it too" is the original correct version.
KUDOS
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Date: 2008-03-04 05:05 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] madbodger.livejournal.com
Then the cake becomes you! And then people can eat you, or something. Um, yeah, that's the ticket.

Date: 2008-03-04 02:55 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wispfox.livejournal.com
*snort* *laughing* Yesss... _that_'s what they mean. ;)

Date: 2008-03-05 11:22 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] vvvexation.livejournal.com
In Soviet Russia, cake eats you?

Date: 2008-03-04 08:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] techempage.livejournal.com
I want to eat my cake and have more of it than I did before I ate it!

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