Know and Meet: Como utilizar?
Das informações que vi aqui, não achei a resposta que queria ainda. Se uma amigo me mostra uma pessoa de longe e diz "aquele é meu outro irmão." Eu posso dizer: Eu não o conhecia ou nunca o conheci (no sentido de não saber da existência dele, porque só conhecia um dos irmãos e pensei que ele tinha só um. E a pessoa nunca falou ou comentou dele ou disse que tinha outro irmão), posso falar "I didn't know him?" ou "I didn't know about him?" "I didn't know of him" Ou ainda é melhor I've never met him ou I've never known him? Mas lembre, a pessoa nunca me apresentou ou nunca me mostrou esse outro irmão e enquanto falávamos me apontou de longe a pessoa. Teria a possibilidade de dizer "I didn't know him?" "I didn't know about him?" ou I don't know him? / " I didn't know about him ?" ou I don't know about him? "I didn't know of him". Porque nunca a vi ou soube dele, que ele existia ou que fulano tinha um outro irmão? Eu digo porque uma vez a Mariah Carrey disse isso sobre a Jennifer Lopes (I don't know her), no sentido de não saber quem ela é ou da existência dela e não no sentido de conhecê-la, de ser apresentada a ela. Queria saber mesmo se posso nesse sentido falar "I didn't know him?" ou até I didn't know about him?
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In the sense of "do you know her personally?" you can use the verb "know". It would have of a more "permanent" quality to it.
Whereas the verb "met" would be more in terms of "presentations" (there is, a more formal or 'transitory' setting)
That is very used in interviews, for instance, to artists by magazine reporters.
I think one example is the proverb "better the devil you know than the devil you don't." (say, you know two managers but one wasn't 'tested' - we think in more permanent terms here).
Rarely an artist don't know their peers, but the question is about closeness, admiration, if they know their work, etc.
My thinking here, of course.
Whereas the verb "met" would be more in terms of "presentations" (there is, a more formal or 'transitory' setting)
That is very used in interviews, for instance, to artists by magazine reporters.
I think one example is the proverb "better the devil you know than the devil you don't." (say, you know two managers but one wasn't 'tested' - we think in more permanent terms here).
Rarely an artist don't know their peers, but the question is about closeness, admiration, if they know their work, etc.
My thinking here, of course.
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