malaprop amongst the flowers

[Arnold M. Zwicky]

On Apr 29, 2004, at 2:04 PM, Barbara Need wrote:

> ...but what
> caught my eye was the following sentence:
>
>> And anyone else will never, in fact, look at this review.
>
> Doesn't this break some rule about the scope of _any_ and negation?

no.  universal and "free choice" _any_ occur freely outside
negative/interrogative/conditional/etc. environments:

   Anyone can whistle.
   Barbara gets in free; anyone else has to pay $25.
   Pick anyone in the group on the left and dance with them.
   Anyone who takes that idea seriously is a fool.

arnold (zwicky at csli.stanford.edu)