Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 11:20:17 -0500

From: Mark Mandel Mark[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]DRAGONSYS.COM

Subject: (yeah, right!)++



Peter Richardson prichard[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]LINFIELD.EDU wrote:



[snip]



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 a

Russian, a double negative

is still a negative. However," he pointed out, "there is no language wherein a double positive can

form a negative."



A voice from the back of the room piped up, "Yeah. Right."





This is also told of Feynman.



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