Joke of the week [278 = year 6, #18] linguistics (1) (November 12 - November 18)
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", at which point a student is overheard commenting, "Yeah,
right."
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