April 2006 Newsletter
News from Home and Abroad
Humour
Tech Writing Funnies
Reprinted from Forward, April 2001. Two fonts walk into a pub. The barman immediately asks them to leave. When they ask why, he says 'We don't serve your type in here'. A linguistics professor was lecturing to his Californian 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."
Reprinted from Forward, April 2001. Two fonts walk into a pub. The barman immediately asks them to leave. When they ask why, he says 'We don't serve your type in here'. A linguistics professor was lecturing to his Californian 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."