Tuesday
Nov242009
Can a Double Positive Form a Negative? Linguistic Humor
Tuesday, November 24, 2009 at 9:24AM 
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 as Russian, a double negative is still a negative. However, there is no language wherein a double positive can form a negative."
A voice from the back of the room piped up, "Yeah, right."
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Reader Comments (4)
ha ha...awesome.
HaHaHa....
Ah Sarcasm! Oh how I Love Thee! :)
lol that's great
So funny! I like it because it reminds me my college days when i was in college we also used to comment from back and it was a great fun that time..I miss those days! Thanks for sharing.
ginko