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My favorite joke about this adage is that the following headline goes with it perfectly. A news editor prints a story about the adage, with the headline: Bette
by simcop2387 14y ago
My favorite joke about this adage is that the following headline goes with it perfectly.
A news editor prints a story about the adage, with the headline: Betteridge's Law of Headlines, is it true?
- dfc 14y agoThat reminds me of a similar story about double positives that I can never remember the details of. Fortunately wikipedia came to the rescue: "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 Morgenbesser responded in a dismissive tone, "Yeah, yeah." [1] [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Morgenbesser http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Morgenbesser