My Professor for my English Language Usage class shared this story with us. I thought it was funny enough to share with all of you.
A professor for a Language Usage class was teaching his class about double negatives. He explained that in some languages, like Spanish, using more than one negative does not change the meaning; it is still a negative. In English, the double negative can either be used to emphasize the negative, or to create a weak affirmative.
"However, in no language do two positives make a negative."
That's when a student in the back of the room piped up,
"Yeah, right."
3 comments:
what about a double "what", as in, " uh huh? or uh huh! or maybe, uh...huh!
Actually, are uh and huh even real words? Or are they like reverting to caveman noises? (sorry cavemen on TV, no disrespect intended)
:)
That is so funny!! "Yeah, right." A double positive can make a negative. You have to love sarcasm!
I don't not understand what it isn't that this story ain't trying to say...
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