A linguistics
professor was lecturing his class the other day. “In
English,” he said, “a double negative forms a positive.
However, in some
languages, such as Russian, a double negative remains a
negative. … But
there isn’t a single language, not one, in which a double
positive can
express a negative.” A voice from the back of the room
piped up, “Yeah,
right.”
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