The Double Positive
Jun. 24th, 2011 01:25 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kiyakotariA Linguistics professor was lecturing his class:
"In English, a double negative forms a positive. In some languages, such as Russian, a double negative is still a negative. However, there is no language wherein a double positive can form a negative."
From the back of the class, a student spoke up:
"Yeah, right."
"In English, a double negative forms a positive. In some languages, such as Russian, a double negative is still a negative. However, there is no language wherein a double positive can form a negative."
From the back of the class, a student spoke up:
"Yeah, right."
