A linguistics professor was lecturing his class. "In English, a double negative is a positive. In some languages, like Russian, a double negative is still a negative. But, there is no language wherein a double positive can be a negative."
A voice from the back of the room piped up, "Yeah, right."
![Apophasis is a rhetorical device wherein the speaker or writer brings up a subject by denying it or denying that it should be brought up. A classic example of apophasis is "I'm not going to say that I told you so".[4]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cyyd366g3hrxp5rynixm2mm3/bafkreihduc4sibmpvsr3z26occequpwmcxbsrwxo62zynwbekq4tgztfvy)
