Double Positive

Jun 3, 2011   //   by Jeroen Schweitzer   //   Posting in the Afternoon, Quotes  //  Comments Off

An MIT 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.”

A voice from the back of the room piped up, “Yeah, right.”
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