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applegrove

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Fri Jun 6, 2014, 07:31 PM Jun 2014

An MIT linguistics professor was lecturing his class the other day.

"An MIT linguistics professor was lecturing his class the other day. "In English," he said, "a double negative forms a positive. However, in some languages, such as Russian, a double negative remains a negative. But there isn't a single language, not one, in which a double positive can express a negative."

A voice from the back of the room said, "Yeah, right." —Sai Kishore K"


http://www.businessinsider.com/profound-jokes-2014-6

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An MIT linguistics professor was lecturing his class the other day. (Original Post) applegrove Jun 2014 OP
Lol cute TxDemChem Jun 2014 #1
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