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Double Negatives
By Todd Augsburger

Since _some_ people have been suggesting that double negatives are bad:

  A linguistics professor was lecturing to his class one day.  Said he,
  "In English, 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 weary voice from the back of the room piped up,  "Yeah, right."

Todd Augsburger
allmax@bright.net

 [ The classic for Christmas Eve is, "I ain't gonna give nothin'
 [ to nobody, nohow!"   Now that's positively negative!  (But wait
 [ 'till Christmas morning.  :-)   -- Robbie



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