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A linguistics professor was lecturing to his class one day.

Published on: Dec 15, 2004 03:40 PM IST
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A linguistics professor was lecturing to his class one day.

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"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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