<p>In this perplexing, 24-hour-news-cycle-reality-show world in which I find myself, I tend to react to current events as if they were background noise that only occasionally comes to the surface of ...

Putting aside politics for a second (as far as that’s possible when discussing the POTUS), Donald Trump’s recent assertion that a “double negative” is the same as a “positive” isn’t entirely incorrect ...

In 1984, the eminent anthropologist Clifford Geertz wrote a clever essay in defense of double negatives. I won’t explain why your high school English teacher told you not to use them (although I just ...

There is an old joke:<BR><BR>A linguistics professor told his class "in English, a double negative forms a positive. In some languages though, such as Russian, a double negative is still a negative.