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Morgenbesserisms � London Review Blog:

"In some languages,’ Austin observed, ‘a double negative yields an affirmative. In others, a double negative yields a more emphatic negative. It is curious, though, that in no language known to me, whether natural or artificial, does a double affirmative yield a negative.’ At which point Morgenbesser piped up from the back of the audience: ‘Yeah, yeah.’"