Date: Fri, 14 Nov 1997 17:36:43 -0500

From: Beverly Flanigan FLANIGAN[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]OUVAXA.CATS.OHIOU.EDU

Subject: Re: one as a pronoun?



And of course Modern English double (and triple, and quadruple,...)

negation also emphasizes the negative; it does not make the sentence

meaning positive, despite the prescriptions of our Miss Fidditch grade

school teachers. Language ain't mathematics!