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NYT Joke of the day
Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 9:09 am
by ne1410s
Joke of the Day
A linguistics professor was lecturing to his English class one day. "In English," he said, "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 wherein a double positive can form a negative." A voice from the back of the room piped up, "Yeah, right."
Re: NYT Joke of the day
Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 9:11 am
by Rexer25
ne1410s wrote:Joke of the Day
A linguistics professor was lecturing to his English class one day. "In English," he said, "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 wherein a double positive can form a negative." A voice from the back of the room piped up, "Yeah, right."
I hope there not passing this off as a new joke. I remember reading and retelling it at least 7 years ago.
Re: NYT Joke of the day
Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 1:20 pm
by nitrah55
Rexer25 wrote:ne1410s wrote:Joke of the Day
A linguistics professor was lecturing to his English class one day. "In English," he said, "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 wherein a double positive can form a negative." A voice from the back of the room piped up, "Yeah, right."
I hope there not passing this off as a new joke. I remember reading and retelling it at least 7 years ago.
There are no new jokes. I think it was Twain who said, "There are but two jokes, and since the mother-in-law is a deplorable condtion, rather than a joke, there is only one."
Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 1:23 pm
by Bob Juch
There's only one lawyer joke. Everything else is true.