Thursday 29 March 2007

LINGUISTIC KNICKERTWIST

With Szwagier, Yellow Duck and Zola all keeping a wary eye open for burrow solecisms, we have been hesitating whether or not to post this one - but have decided to take the plunge:


A linguistics professor was lecturing the class.

"In English," he explained, "a double negative forms a positive. In some languages, such as Russian, a double negative is still a negative."

"However," the professor continued, "there is no language wherein a double positive can form a negative."

Immediately, a voice from the back of the room piped up: "Yeah..... right...."

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Well I'm glad you did post it, it really tickled me!

zola a social thing said...

good to see anticant well piped up.

What yer on Antiweedle?

Anonymous said...

same as us,Spring is in the air,and in trousers.........