JohnH Posted July 5, 2018 Report Share Posted July 5, 2018 A linguistics professor was lecturing his class on negative polarity, negative concord, & litotes, so he stated: "In English, a double negative results in a positive. In many other languages, a double negative simply emphasizes the negative intent. But there is no language known to man in which a double positive produces a negative." From the back of the room, a student mumbled "Yeah, right" 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catherine Posted July 6, 2018 Report Share Posted July 6, 2018 @JohnH's sig line, "In theory, practice and theory are identical. In practice, they are not," leads to this response: I want to live in theory - EVERYTHING works in theory! 4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnH Posted July 6, 2018 Author Report Share Posted July 6, 2018 @Catherine Does that include Chaos Theory? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catherine Posted July 7, 2018 Report Share Posted July 7, 2018 6 hours ago, JohnH said: @Catherine Does that include Chaos Theory? Hey, why not?! What two concepts occur (and are used mathematically) everywhere in science and engineering, but do not exist in our universe? True randomness. Infinity. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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