Double Negatives
Quote from Forum Archives on October 19, 1999, 7:16 amPosted by: clean-hewmor <clean-hewmor@...>
Double NegativesA 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."
Posted by: clean-hewmor <clean-hewmor@...>
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."