Curmudgeonly & Skeptical presents Boned Jello: 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 a kid in the back of the room, name of Doug, said, "Yeah, right."
Friday, January 15, 2016
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