Date: Thu, 16 Nov 1995 15:07:11 MST From: Tom Uharriet Subject: Re: Fw: HUMOR: Thought for Wednesday, Nov 15, 1995 (fwd) Great story! Did the E A Newsletter present it as a joke or as a real experience? > > > > At a lecture on linguistics, the speaker suggested > > that in English there wasn't the opposite of a double > > negative, whereby two affirmatives resulted in a negative. > > Someone from the audience called out "Yeah, right!" which > > brought down the house. > > > > -quoted in the Electronic AIR Newsletter > > > > > > Wayne Glowka Tom Uharriet utom[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]admn.712.nebo.edu