Date:  Fri, 14 Nov 1997 10:37:31 +0200
From:  Liudmila Kostiukevich <lvk[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]USM.MD>
Subject: Re: one as a pronoun?

That is absolutely right. In Russian two negatives can be used without
making meaning of the sentence positive. Moreover, the use of two
negetives are very often and they even strenghten the negation.

L.Kostiukevich

On Thu, 13 Nov 1997, Duane Campbell wrote:

> At 10:08 AM 11/12/97 +0200, you wrote:
> >As a foriegner (Russian-speaker) I can only add that the form is rather
> >popular with us as it allows us to follow the patterns of our language. In
> >Russian you can build sentences without subject in Passive.
>
> I am told that in Russian two negatives do not make a positive. This was
> recently related in the following story:
>
> An English prof was explaining that in English two negatives make a
> positive, but in Russian they do not. But in no language do two positives
> every make a negative. To which one of the students replied, "Yeah. Right."
>
>
> Duane Campbell dcamp[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]epix.net
> http://www.epix.net/~dcamp/
>