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- Know about vs. know of - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
To me it seems like 'know about' is used in every situation and the use of 'know of' is mostly limited to 'not that I know of' expression Short google search seems to support my point of view, there are articles named '10 things I know about journalism' where person is speaking from the experience and not that many encounters of 'know of
- Which is correct: So far as I know or As far as I know?
"As far as I know" is the idiomatic expression I'm familiar with as far as conj To the degree or extent that: They returned at nine, as far as we know Usage Note: As far as the Usage Panel is concerned, as far as had better be followed by both a subject and a form of go or be concerned
- Happen to know vs. came to know vs. got to know vs. came across
Come to know (past: came to know) is a somewhat literary way of saying find out or learn (a fact), or become acquainted with (a person) Get to know (past: got to know) means become acquainted or better acquainted with (a person) It is also a rather colloquial alternative to come to know (a fact)
- I dont know nothing vs I dont know anything [duplicate]
NB: “I don’t know nothin’ about that” ≠ “I don’t not know anything about that” The second is a true double negative; the first is still a single negative reinforced through reduplication, which is why it still has a negative sense The true double negative alone has positive sense –
- Meaning and interpretation of Bilbos half as well quote
"I don't know many of you as much as I'd like" - I wish I had time to know many of you better "I like some of you less than you deserve" - I should have appreciated some of you more The language is a riddle which Bilbo enjoys and is good at, as we saw in "The Hobbit", and it adds levity to his speech to hide that he is saying goodbye to everyone
- Idiom phrase which means to pretend not to understand or know
Neither of these accurately reflect what the OP wants 'Fronting' is more likely to mean the person is is pretending to know more than they do Taking the piss - yes somebody pretending not to know something, could be described as 'taking the piss', but refers to people being untruthful in general, it's not specific to pretend ignorance
- Dont know of vs. Dont know - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
"I don't know any other place" can mean "I know of the existence of places other than the one of which we both know, but the one of which we both know is the only one about which I know something of its nature" In conversation people tend to use these formulations interchangeably and rely on the context for disambiguation
- Usage of the phrase you dont know what you dont know
We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don't know we don't know And if one looks throughout the history of our country and other free countries, it is the latter category that tend to be the difficult ones
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