From buddy Mon Jan 16 17:54:12 1995
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 1995 17:53:53
Subject: how quick are you?


     PROFESSOR:  Although in modern English the double negative is usually
         taken to mean an affirmative, in many linguistic contexts the double
         negative is an intensified negative, as the double affirmative is
         _always_ an intensified affirmative.  There is no known case of a
         double affirmative being used as a negative.

     STUDENT:  Yeah, right.