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From: rwt@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Rainer Thonnes)
Subject: Re: Impaired British Humour (was: Amerikan Kulture (was:MENSA))
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Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 14:12:57 GMT
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In article <333A5AAC.295E@cern.ch>, Ian Brawn <ian.brawn@cern.ch> writes:
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> Though surely not nobody doesn't not disagree with this: double negatives 
> ain't not never a good idea as they lead to ambiguous statements.

Not half as much as triple and quintuple ones do.
