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Stop me if you've heard it!

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 a negative. However, there is no language wherein a double positive forms a negative"

A voice from the back of the room piped up, "Yeah, right!"

[waxwing]

You can see the Russian equivalent here: http://masterrussian.net/mforum/viewtopic.php?t=3905&highlight=