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It's always tricky dealing with double negatives. 02/27/2019, 06:02:55

Peter2 writes: 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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Aaargh! - Liliths Slave ( Wed 27-Feb-19 06:51:15 ) +1 Deyja (Spoilerish) - Eric B ( Wed 27-Feb-19 08:42:07 ) My mother tongue of Czech is a bit tricky with respect to this, too... - Ramillies ( Wed 27-Feb-19 15:53:30 ) +1 Communication and language - Peter2 ( Thu 28-Feb-19 06:47:24 ) +2 Correction – in the post above, for "translator" please read "interpreter" (n/t) - Peter2 ( Thu 28-Feb-19 07:02:47 ) That's so true. I absolutely agree with English being hard to use correctly. - Ramillies ( Thu 28-Feb-19 16:32:24 )