Confusing wording, "anything can be assigned to it and it can be assigned to anything" https://basarat.gitbook.io/typescript/type-system#special-types

On tutorial page https://basarat.gitbook.io/typescript/type-system#special-types

> The any type holds a special place in the TypeScript type system. It gives you an escape hatch from the type system to tell the compiler to bugger off. any is compatible with any and all types in the type system. This means that _**anything can be assigned to it and it can be assigned to anything**_....

if I take "it" to be the `any` type annotation then the phrase "anything can be assigned to it" doesn't make sense. we can't assign something to any keyword:

```
any = 5; // ❌ Invalid — 'any' is a keyword, not a variable

```

In programming we can't use ambiguous language. A better wording could have been:

> “anything can be assigned to a variable of type any, and a variable of type any can be assigned to anything.”