Original Message: It's always tricky dealing with double negatives. |
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I heard a story once about a lecturer in English working at an American Uiversity, who was dealing with this. He said there were some languages such as English, where a second negative cancelled out the first, and other languages such as Russian, where the second negative reinforced the first, but there were no languages where a second positive cancelled out the first. At this point, a student's voice from the back of the lecture theatre was heard to remark "Yeah, right." |
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