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Joke: A Linguistics Professor’s Lecture

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 piped up, “Yeah, right.”

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