catch-fart

[LanDi Liu]

I don't get it.

On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 5:14 PM, Stephen Goranson <goranson at duke.edu> wrote:
> It is a saying of the Sumerians, who lived in what is now southern Iraq and
> goes: 'Something which has never occurred since time immemorial; a young
> woman did not fart in her husband's lap.'

It *never* occurred that a young woman *did not* fart in her husband's lap?

How do you work out the double negative in Sumerian?  Is it an
intensifier, or do they cancel each other out?

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Randy Alexander
Jilin City, China
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