Subject: Using A Double Negative
From: Unicorn (unicorn@indenial.com)
Date: Tue Apr 22 2003 - 09:54:23 EDT
"Using A Double Negative"
A linguistics professor was lecturing to his 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," he pointed out, "there is no language
wherein a double positive can form a negative."
A voice from the back of the room piped up,
"Yeah. Right."
**********************
"Intruder"
There was a married couple sleeping and an
intruder entered into their house. The intruder
put a knife to the neck of the woman and said,
"I like to know the names of my victims before
I kill them, what is your name?"
"My name is Elizabeth," the woman replied.
The intruder said, "You remind me of my mother
who was also named Elizabeth, so I can't harm
you."
The intruder then turned to the husband and asked,
"What is your name?"
"My name's Phillip, but my friends call me Elizabeth."
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