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LukeJavan8
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Double Negative.

Postby LukeJavan8 » Wed Jan 27, 2010 4:46 pm

This arrived in my mail today:


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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Postby Slava » Wed Jan 27, 2010 5:39 pm

Though this works, too, I've always heard, "Yeah, Yeah."
Life is like playing chess with chessmen who each have thoughts and feelings and motives of their own.

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Postby LukeJavan8 » Wed Jan 27, 2010 6:16 pm

That's good. It was a new one on me.
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