Just because someone wills something and it happens doesn't mean there is a causal link. Likewise you can will your car to start and it still not start, no special powers involved.
A client suggests something (actually, an edit to an existing item or a proposal for a new item) and I need to have two variables to refer to the following: The client that suggested the thing. The id of the client who suggested the thing. I couldn't just use Client and ClientId because it would be ambiguous in this particular situation.
I've been looking into the meaning of "ruin something for someone" in dictionaries, but cannot find any explanation. I'd like to know what it means in the sentence: "You ruined that...
I'm sure I've got something for you is only "informal" in AmE insofar as it includes a contraction (in my experience, Americans rarely use I have something for you, which is the relatively formal BrE version).. But my point was simply that (with or without got, contracted or not) AAVE doesn't use have in that way (much, if at all).
This requires the author to distinguish between the word something, particular entities which the word something may designate, and the set of entities to which the word something may refer. In your sentence the author is referring to #3: a something is some particular member of the set ‘something’.