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   Stuart Celarier (visualstuart@pdx.social)'s status on Monday, 30-Jan-2023 08:46:12 JST Stuart Celarier

   A linguistics professor was lecturing on the role of the double negative, noting that in some languages like Russian a double negative remains negative, while in other languages like French a double negative becomes positive. However, the professor observed, in no language in the world does a double positive become negative. From the back of the classroom a student replied, "Yeah. Right."

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     WesDym (wesdym@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 24-May-2023 19:32:02 JST WesDym

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     @VisualStuart I always like the version of this that ends, "Yeah, yeah."

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