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And during the second day of English Class the teacher was speaking on Negatives.
"As you well know a single negative indicates a negative as in:
'There aren't any bananas for the monkeys'."
"As you might know generally a double negative is poor English as it logically indicates a positive. If you say 'We don't have none' you would be indicating that you have some, as you do not have 'none'."
"Interestingly in Russian a Double Negative can be properly used and indicates a Negative. Of course there is no language that can use a double positive to indicate a negative"
From the back of the room a bored voice pipes up with
"Yeah, right."
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