[Rhodes22-list] Education

[Gregg J. MacMillan]

At 8:08 PM -0400 6/29/06, Robert Skinner wrote:
>(How anything compounded of two negatives can be seen as
>positive is beyond me.)

A teacher says to her class, "It's an interesting linguistic fact 
that, in English, a double negative forms a positive. In some 
languages though, such as Russian, a double negative is still a 
negative. However, there is no language in which a double positive 
can make a negative."

A student says, "Yeah, right."

--Gregg