Re: Weekly Vocab 6: to know

taliesin the storyteller wrote:

> In Norwegian the triplet is:
>
> å vite "to know <something>"
> å kunne "to know how to do <something>", same as English _can, could_
> å kjenne "to know <someone>"
Hmmm... Modern Colombian seem to be developing this triplete.

Spahish has always had
 conocer : to know something, be familiar with something

 saber : to know a fact
But many people, at least in Bogota basilect, also have:
 distinguir : to know someone (who someone is)
probably no to confuse "conocer" with knowing "in the biblical sense".

-- Carlos Th