@orangutan saidWell, let's just say, there are some mistakes one makes in life only once. 😆
I worry that you know the answer from actual experiment ....
@Earl-of-Trumps saidTeacher: Charlie, imagine you have ten pieces of chocolate and will share half of them with your kid brother - how many will he have?
Boris Spassky was once asked by a reporter, “Which do you prefer: chess or sex?”.
Spassky replied “It very much depends on the position”.
Charlie: Three
Teacher: Charlie, can't you count?
Charlie: Yes, but my brother can't.
@Torunn saidTeacher then says to Charlie - "If you have ten apples in your left hand, and twelve apples in your right hand - what have you got?"
Teacher: Charlie, imagine you have ten pieces of chocolate and will share half of them with your kid brother - how many will he have?
Charlie: Three
Teacher: Charlie, can't you count?
Charlie: Yes, but my brother can't.
Charlie - "Big hands!"
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@orangutan saidThen teacher says to the class - "In English, a double-negative is actually a positive - but a double positive is never a negative."
Teacher then says to Charlie - "If you have ten apples in your left hand, and twelve apples in your right hand - what have you got?"
Charlie - "Big hands!"
Charlie - "Yeah, right!".
@orangutan saidNo! DUH!
Then teacher says to the class - "In English, a double-negative is actually a positive - but a double positive is never a negative."
Charlie - "Yeah, right!".