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A linguistics professor says during a lecture that, "In English, a double negative forms a positive. But in some languages, such as Russian, a double negative is still a negative. However, in no language in the world can a double positive form a negative."
But then a voice from the back of the room piped up, "Yeah, right."
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Did you hear this one? (Original Post)
yallerdawg
Mar 2017
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TeapotInATempest
(804 posts)1. Ha, love it!
Thanks for the laugh today.
True Dough
(17,314 posts)2. Clever!
A linguistics joke that requires "tone" told via the Internet and it immediately hits its mark. GREAT SUCCESS!!!
yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)3. I'm sure DU'ers are particularly familiar with...
"Yeah, right!"
bigmonkey
(1,798 posts)4. I have another favorite.
There are 10 kinds of people in the world -- those who understand binary, and those who don't.
Thor_MN
(11,843 posts)5. There are 2 kinds of people in the world,
those that can draw inferences from incomplete information
Kimchijeon
(1,606 posts)6. DO HO HOHOHO