> BTW, regarding the joke in your signature, there's  a longer version.
>
> Professor: There are languages where a double negative makes
> a positive.
> A Russian student: Net, net! (an emphatically negative statement)
> Professor: But there are no languages languages where a
> double positive
> makes  a negative.
> A Russian student: Da, da... (equivalent to Yeah, right!)

thanks Slava, that's funny.

Al



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