The double positive becomes a negative anecdote
Posted by jpluimers on 2020/12/18
There has been an anecdote going around on the internet (I bumped into it via [WayBack] Giggles #giggles #linguistics – Terry McNeil – Google+) about an MIT linguistics professor on double positives not becoming a negative, but somehow do.
In reality, this was a real life event where Oxford philosopher J. L. Austin posed statement and Columbia University professor Sidney Morgenbesser saying “Yeah, yeah.” quoted in for instance [WayBack] Sidewalk Socrates – The New York Times
So: No MIT linguistics professor involved at all (:
Related:
- [WayBack] An MIT linguistics professor was lecturing his class the other day… : funny
- [WayBack] Linguistic humor
–jeroen
Via: [WayBack] Giggles #giggles #linguistics – Jeroen Wiert Pluimers – Google+
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