Share posts like this one and say, "Hey friends, family, and acquaintances, we're aware of these issues just like these parents are".
In short, we may have five close friends and 20 acquaintances, but we are very unlikely to have 20 close friends and five acquaintances.
"Excuse me, when, precisely, did we make each other's acquaintance?" "Oh, but we are already acquaintances and friends.
Every week I receive calls from friends and acquaintances saying: "We're going to be in Great Neck.
Our understanding is that they weren't well known, they were possibly acquaintances but we're still trying to work that out".
Among our immediate acquaintances, we had been the first to have a baby, and had got used to being slightly ahead, the knowledgeable ones.
"I could tell you things," one woman tells another about a rich acquaintance, "but we're here in a beautiful tidy house with such wonderful things to eat.
When we criticize our acquaintances' fancy gear, maybe we are really worried that they are having more fun than we are.
Four years ago I bonded with someone who had been an acquaintance for years, and we are BFFs today (we are both 60).
Knowledge by acquaintance obtains whenever "we have acquaintance with anything of which we are directly aware, without the intermediary of any process of inference or any knowledge of truths" (The Problems of Philosophy, 46).
