What rule?

Being an ALT means encountering a number of... unusual ideas about English.  Some things make sense, like the idea that writing English letters has a "proper stroke order" that actually matters (after all, the stroke order for kanji does matter, so why wouldn't other writing systems be the same?)  But some "rules"... I'm not really sure where they came up with them.  One I encountered recently was the something/anything for questions, pictured above.  If you are asking a question, you generally don't know the expected answer; that's why you're asking.  So it doesn't really make sense, from an English-speaker's perspective, to phrase the question differently, in this case.  So that question really threw me for a loop.

English does have a lot of weird rules, and numerous exceptions to every rule (so many irregulars verbs... so many).  This is because English has a TON of loan words to which the origin-language's rules apply (that's why "tooth" becomes "teeth" and "goose" becomes "geese" BUT "moose" doesn't become "meese", because the first two words are German in origin but the last is Native American in origin).  And throughout history, every time someone tried to "standardize" English spelling, they employed their own method for doing so, which resulted in modern English spelling being as seemingly "random" as it is.

When it comes to English rules, it's a bit like someone wrote a bunch of things on pieces of paper, put them all in a box, shook the box, and then tossed it into the air and just grabbed one, much to the frustration of every ESL learner.