"Never start a sentence with 'and' or 'but'!"
 
 
I replied...
 
"But we all do.  And that's a fact!"

And I'll add it can't be helped! But she may be right.

My teacher once asked me to use "archaic" in a sentence. I said "we can't have archaic and eat it." 

I used to wear a tie-dyed teacher when I was younger...

A linguistics professor was lecturing to his English class one day. "In English," he said, "a double negative forms a positive. In some languages, though, such as Russian, a double negative is still a negative. However, there is no language wherein a double positive can form a negative."
 
A voice from the back of the room piped up, "Yeah, right."

sharke
A linguistics professor was lecturing to his English class one day. "In English," he said, "a double negative forms a positive. In some languages, though, such as Russian, a double negative is still a negative. However, there is no language wherein a double positive can form a negative."
 
A voice from the back of the room piped up, "Yeah, right."

 I like that! As my better half has languages as a profession, and I'm just interested in them in a modest way, jokes like that make me feel smart. "Hey, I understood that!" :o)