• thedirtyknapkin@lemmy.world
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        1 month ago

        nah, anything is more correct here. it’s like and/or vs neither/nor. “i do understand everything” is the grammatical opposite of “i don’t understand anything”. “i don’t understand everything” is a different sentence entirely. it would only imply that there are aspects of “everything” they don’t understand, rather than that there is nothing they understand.

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      1 month ago

      Take the quotation marks away, and the sentence would still be correct. I have a strange idea about what literally anything means.