"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. To which [Sidney] Morgenbesser responded in a dismissive tone, 'Yeah, right.'"
I never didn't not not think that.
Inspired simultaneously and erratically by the blog thoughts of both Stanley Lee and Ned Rorem.
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