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!