Date: Fri, 17 Nov 1995 08:10:56 -0500

From: Wayne Glowka wglowka[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MAIL.GAC.PEACHNET.EDU

Subject: Re: Fw: HUMOR: Thought for Wednesday, Nov 15, 1995 (fwd)



Great story! Did the E A Newsletter present it as a joke or as a

real experience?



At a lecture on linguistics, the speaker suggested

that in English there wasn't the opposite of a double

negative, whereby two affirmatives resulted in a negative.

Someone from the audience called out "Yeah, right!" which

brought down the house.



-quoted in the Electronic AIR Newsletter







Wayne Glowka







Tom Uharriet

utom[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]admn.712.nebo.edu



I don't know the context. I was passed the message by a librarian who got

it off one of the lists she subscribes to.



Wayne Glowka