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Bookmark or Share- Word for something difficult or nearly impossible to achieveAspirations are typically things that people or organisations want to achieve, think they can, but cannot guarantee that they will. In business it's typically the best case scenario or outcome of a particular course of action. A similar word is ambition. In a more fanciful context, I would use dream.
- You cannot "eat your cake and have it" or "have your cake and eat it"?You cannot have your cake and eat it, too. You cannot eat your cake and have it, too. The meaning is simply that the cake cannot be both eaten and saved for later. The two options are mutually exclusive. Neither are misworded, misordered or misused.
- double negation - Is "cannot not say" standard English? - English ..."cannot not say" would only rarely be used in English, and only in very specific circumstances. In particular, this is not a simple double negative. "cannot not" does not mean the same as "can", it means "must". It also carries a connotation that not saying is the expected or default action.
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- grammaticality - Is it incorrect to say, "Why cannot....?" - English ...Cannot is the only negative form that contains not rather than -n't. Theoretically, since it is a single word, you can say why cannot you... without a problem. My theory is that modern English speakers don't want to put cannot before the subject because it contains not and sounds like can not .
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