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 a kid in the back of the room, name of Doug, said, "Yeah, right."
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scream-of-consciousness; "If you're trying to change minds and influence people it's probably not a good idea to say that virtually all elected Democrats are liars, but what the hell."
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Funny, but not talking snail funny.
ReplyDeleteSigh,there's just one talking snail to go around.
ReplyDeleteiirc, the original punchline was "Yeah, yeah"
ReplyDelete"Yeah, right" is a better punchline
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