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Reminds me the "any cars that have been lapped by the leader will be required to pass the cars on the lead lap and the safety car" clause in the Formula 1 racin
by egeozcan 5y ago
Reminds me the "any cars that have been lapped by the leader will be required to pass the cars on the lead lap and the safety car" clause in the Formula 1 racing regulations (article 48.12), which got a lot of attention after the last race in the season.
Red Bull Racing argued that in that sentence "any" doesn't mean "all". As a non-native speaker, this is just mind games for me.
More reading: https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/580131/does-any-necessarily-mean-all-when-speaking-of-a-requirement https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/580131/does-any-...
If you really have a lot of free time, interest in regulations, F1 AND the English language, this deep dive can also be interesting: https://www.reddit.com/r/F1Technical/comments/rkv633/unpacking_the_stewards_decision_dismissing/ https://www.reddit.com/r/F1Technical/comments/rkv633/unpacki...
- BucketsMcG 5y agoI'm a native English speaker with a degree in linguistics, but I didn't appreciate how hard "some/any" are for native speakers until a Polish colleague asked me to explain it, and I pretty much failed. It's something you learn how to do intuitively, but when you try to formulate a consistent set of rules explaining why you choose one over the other, it turns out to be pretty difficult.
- SOLAR_FIELDS 5y agoA decent amount of English is full of inconsistencies like this. Every language has its warts, of course, but like you I never really realized how difficult English is as a language until asked to explain certain behaviors to non-native speakers.