Originally Posted by bobunf

If once took a linguistics class in which the Professor stated that there many language in which a double negative stays negative or in which a double negative becomes positive, e.g.

"No hay nada."
"He was not without delusions of grandeur"

But, the Professor went on to say, there are no languages in which a double positive becomes a negative. Taking that into account I think I would respond to azzurro's comment, reproduced below, with:

"Yeah, right."