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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction
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To: mph who wrote (5832)3/26/2004 2:24:48 PM
From: SI Dave  Read Replies (1) of 90947
 
discretion and politics?

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," he pointed out, "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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