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October 03, 2003
APROPOS OF NOTHING
Language is alive and wriggling. Herr Doktor Professor Alan M. Edelson sends along this tale: A linguistics professor was explaining to his class how the use of the double negative varies in different languages. In English, the double negative results in a positive statement. This is not necessarily the case in other languages. But, he said, in no language does a double positive result in a negative. From the back of the class came a reply: "Yeah, right!"
Posted by at October 3, 2003 11:19 AM