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August082010
Negative Double Positive
An MIT linguistics professor was lecturing his class the other day.
“In English,” he said, “a double negative forms a positive. However, in
some languages, such as Russian, a double negative remains a negative.
But there isn’t a single language, not one, in which a double positive
can express a negative.”
A voice from the back of the room piped up, “Yeah, right.”
