Do it Anyway?

     I am not a religious man, but a friend read me a poem by the late Mother Teresa.  The poem was called anyway and the link should appear at the bottom.  Anyway, it's a nice word.  Ha!  Funny no.  As a beginner in linguistics I began to ponder this word and thought it perhaps some sort of polarity item.  Negative polarity items are more common than positive ones in English... what is a polarity item, you ask?  Well I may have the answer
     A polarity item, to my knowledge, is a word or phrase that can only function in either a positive or negative sense in a sentence is set off by a negation in a sentence, with a not.   (A negative polarity item also functions in questions and the questions do not have to be negative.  I added this later on and didn't want to be fancy about it).  An example is "at all".  While one could say "I didn't like that movie at all" it is grammatically impossible and unquestionably awkward to any native speaker of English to say "I liked the movie at all".  These polarity items can never be "depolarized", except when they can.
     The cases in which they can be depolarized vary on regional dialect.  Examples include a positive anymore stemming from Ohio and a positive yet from my homeland, New England.  Here is an example of the positive anymore: There are potholes in the street, anymore.  This means that there are in fact potholes currently in the street. Here is an example of the positive yet:  I have eaten yet.  This means I have in fact eaten.  Generally I feel, since it is sort of in my grammar (with this I have certain intuitions that you may lack :P), that there is a question of yet that precedes or an implication of it. Actually, I have no evidence for this, so don't take my word for it.  I simply just sense a phantom prompt for this yet when I hear it.
      Anyway... i digress.  Ha, again!  Anyway clearly isn't a polarity item because it functions in both positive and negative sentences (ex.  I watched/didn't watch it anyway) with perfectly grammatical execution.  I can't really find anything online about it, but in my search I found a cool wikipedia spinoff for linguist, called Glottopedia.  I'll also add it to the list, hopefully.  Can anyone out there tell me anything about anyway, anyway?  Could you tell me something cool, perhaps, something revealing?  Maybe not.

                                                                                 Sincerely Trying Anyway
Sites:
Peom- http://dbooth.org/guat2000/small/teresa.htm
Glottopedia- http://www.glottopedia.de/index.php/Main_Page

Funny

I would've been funny if I had quit then, but that's not going to happen.  I have some interesting semantics to discuss, but my class moved... am I being cooperative?

                                                                             Sincerely Trying to Be Sincere

I Haven't Given Up... Up I Haven't Given?

I'm still going to continue to write to no one until no one responds... wait, no, that's not it. Anyway, I am still here with... some dignity intact and I have a fantastic title with what I consider to be an appropriate, end of the sentence preposition.  This was possibly inadvertent, possibly.

                                                                     Sincerely Trying to Will You Here 

Hmmm...

I can't sleep or I refuse to sleep.  This is a semantic issue with which I am all too acquainted.  I think the prior can mean the latter, but not necessarily vice-versa.  Help mean explain what I'm saying.  Anyway, talk amongst yourselves.

                                                                         Sincerely Not Trying Sincerely to Sleep

Thoughts on Semantics... Generally Speaking

Now I know that I'm just starting my linguistic journey and I know that I'm not the most studious person, but some things are very apparent about this study.  IT IS VERY CONVOLUTED.  I should probably say complicated, because it probably makes more sense than I give credit.  It's just as easy as that, though.  It's so nuanced that my perceptual muscles are fatigued just thinking at the prospect of understanding it.  The Mac dictionary defines convoluted as such:
convoluted |ˈkänvəˌloōtid|
adjective(esp. of an argument, story, or sentence) extremely complex and difficult to follow : its convoluted narrative encompasses all manner of digressions.• chiefly technical intricately folded, twisted, or coiled : walnuts come inhard and convoluted shells
But I have this intuitive feeling that convoluted means more than just very complex.  It seems to mean more than just very, it seems to mean overly complex.  I mean something that is complicated may simply be complicated, not that it is by someone's doing.  So I choose to call Semantics complicated because it is naturally complex... not because someone overcomplicated a more simplistic matter.  
I digress.  By the way, I can't figure how to stop the indent after that copy-paste I did... Oh well, just understand this is not intentionally indented.  What are your thoughts?  That is, if anyone's out there, what are his or her thoughts on the subject of semantics?  Also I have nothing against using a singular they, I just thought some people would be frustrated by it.
                                                                                           Sincerely Trying to Be Funnier Next Time                                                                                           Sincerely Trying to Be More General