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- Subject: Humor: Linguistics joke
- From: [email protected] (Jon D Dayley)
- Date: Thu, 4 Dec 1997 23:35:32 -0700
- References: <[email protected]>
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."