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I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow, the million...
– blogger’s note: it takes 3 cups of cocoa to read The Bell Jar.
September 2010
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Anecdote of the Day: Negative Double Positive
thedailywhat:
Based on a true story:
An MIT linguistics professor was lecturing his class the other day. “In English,” he said, “a double negative forms a positive. However, in some languages, such as Russian, a double negative remains a negative. But there isn’t a single language, not one, in which a double positive can express a negative.”
A voice from the back of the room piped up, “Yeah,...
July 2010
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