Newsgroups: rec.humor.funny.reruns From: baulch@thiazi.cs.cornell.edu (Garth Baulch) Subject: Double negatives Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 19:20:00 PDT URL: http://www.netfunny.com/rhf/jokes/88q3/14438.html

A linguistics professor was lecturing to his class one day about the fact that in many languages, such as English, a double negative forms a positive, while in other languages, such as Russian, a double negative is still a negative. "However," he pointed out, "in no language can a double positive form a negative."

A bored voice from the back of the room responded, "Yeah, yeah..."

[Ed: Reportedly a true incident, accounted in the New Yorker Magazine.]