Language change

[Jon Machtynger]

Reminds me of an old joke...

 A linguistics professor was lecturing to his 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
> considered 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."



> A particularly lovely example is the way "yeah,right" has come to mean
> "no", or perhaps more explicitly "no way".  Audrey Holland
>
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