A Lecture About English

I've read this before, but thought it was worth reprinting here.....



A linguistics professor was lecturing to his English 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, there is no language wherein a double positive can form a negative."



A voice from the back of the room piped up, "Yeah, right."