A lecture about English

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A linguistics professor was lecturing to his English 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 can form a negative."

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

 

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A linguistics professor was lecturing to his English 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 can form a negative."

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

This one is true.

One time, a retired lecturer was invited back to his college to lead a seminar.

Instead of talking about the changes in scientific research, the lecturer chose to tell the class some of his observations. And the one thing that frustrated him more than anything else was when a student failed to communicate properly. He absolutely hated it whenever a student intentionally mispronounced a word. And students at the college had a habit of adding a 'sh' sound to any word that had an 's' in it, even if there was not a single 'h'. They said 'Yesh' when the agreed with something. They liked to go 'shwimming'. They even used 'shpoonsh' to eat their 'shoup'.

The lecturer finished his rant by pointing out that 'sugar' was the only word in the English language that did not have the letters 'sh' in it, but was still pronounced like it had.

One student was amazed. He asked the old lecturer, "Really. Are you SURE?"