During a lecture, the Oxford linguistic philosopher J. L. Austin made the claim
that although a double negative in English implies a positive meaning,
there is no language in which a double positive implies a negative.
Morgenbesser responded in a dismissive tone, "Yeah, yeah."
Obituary for Professor Sidney Morgenbesser, The Independent, 2004
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