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Re: "Charged" capacitor mis-terminology



Yeah, Sure, unless that old professor was from Lake Wobegone!

On Sun, 15 Feb 1998, Herb Schulz wrote:

On Sun, 15 Feb 1998 00:43:34 -0500 "Bob Sciamanda" <trebor@velocity.net>
writes:

What two not uncommon English words have identical pronunciations and
spellings but opposite meanings? (As far as I know, this amazing
discovery is original!)

The two words are ..."DEFINITELY NOT"

Herb Gottlieb from New York City
(Where we are trying to interpret Clinton's response to the questions
about Monica)


Howdy,

Here's one for you:

A young philosophy student started off a presentation on languages with the
statement "There are many languages where a double negative is a positive
(English and Mathematics are examples) but there are no known languages
where a double positive is a negative." At that statement an old professor
at the back of the auditorium stood up, stated "Yeah, sure," and left the
auditorium.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs@interaccess.com)