Linguistic Joke
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A Russian Teacher is speaking to his [Northern] English pupils: "Russian is now an unusual langauge in Europe, as a double negative is used to reinforce the negative so to say 'I'm not never doing that' in Russian means I'm really, really not doing it. In English it means I will do it in the future. No language exists where a double positive forms a negative". Billy Replies: "Aye, right."
CCC solved so far: 2 (including a Hard One!)
Two wrongs don't make a right, but three rights make a left.
m.bergman
-- For Bruce Schneier, quanta only have one state : afraid.
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A Russian Teacher is speaking to his [Northern] English pupils: "Russian is now an unusual langauge in Europe, as a double negative is used to reinforce the negative so to say 'I'm not never doing that' in Russian means I'm really, really not doing it. In English it means I will do it in the future. No language exists where a double positive forms a negative". Billy Replies: "Aye, right."
CCC solved so far: 2 (including a Hard One!)
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I'm not Scots but I have a friend who is and he said this the other day: Je'naekenfitamean? Good luck figuring that oot! :wtf: :)
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Two wrongs don't make a right, but three rights make a left.
m.bergman
-- For Bruce Schneier, quanta only have one state : afraid.