APROPOS OF NOTHING

Language is alive and wriggling. Herr Doktor Professor Alan M. Edelson sends along this
tale: A linguistics professor was explaining to his class how the use of the double negative varies
in different languages. In English, the double negative results in a positive statement. This is not
necessarily the case in other languages. But, he said, in no language does a double positive result
in a negative. From the back of the class came a reply: “Yeah, right!”

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