[2223] in Humor
HUMOR: Double negatives, double positives
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Mon Jan 26 21:11:08 1998
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
To: humor@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 21:08:31 EST
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From: Amy Beverley Chan & Jeremy David Weiss <slinkie@cyberspace.org>
Subject: HUMOR: Double negatives, double positives
A linguistics professor was lecturing to his class one day. "In English,"
he said, "A double negative forms a positive. In some languages, though,
such as Russian, a double negative is still a negative. However, there is
no language wherein a double positive can form a negative."
A voice from the back of the room piped up, "Yeah, right."
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