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A linguistics professor was lecturing to his class one day.
Published on: Dec 15, 2004, 15:40:00 IST
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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."
At that time, a voice from the back of the room piped up, "Yeah, right..."
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