What is the difference of "deal with","handle"?
Could someone explain me about the difference please?
What is the difference of them?
1. Handle / deal with
I made some sentence bymyself, is it correct in that situation?
<handle>
A: hey! You seems holding lots of tasks! Can you handle this?
A: You looks dipressed , is there anything you can not handle ?
<deal with>
A: My experience is not enough to deal with the task.
A:My English is not so good. Calling shop an complain something is tall order, I can not deal with that.
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What is the difference of "deal with","handle"?
Could someone explain me about the difference please?What is the difference of them?
1. Handle / deal with
I made some sentence bymyself, is it correct in that situation?
A: hey! You seems holding lots of tasks! Can you handle this?
A: You looks dipressed , is there anything you can not handle ?
A: My experience is not enough to deal with the task.
A:My English is not so good. Calling shop an complain something is tall order, I can not deal with that.
Hey! You look depressed. Is there something you are having a hard time dealing with (here again, as per our explanation)
I am very inexperienced (in such matters/in this area). I don't think that I can handle this task ("job" would be better). Would you deal with it? (See my last comment: this means "can you take care of this?")
My English is not so good. Calling a shop to complain about something is a tall order. (Here you have a couple of options, all of which go back to our original explanation.) I cannot deal with that (meaning: "it causes me too much stress" or "right now I have so much else to do, that I cannot do this." This last statement is very close to the use of "handle" that we discussed before: you could also say, "I just cannot handle it" (meaning that the task is beyond your abilities) but you could also be implying that you just cannot tolerate the stress. As you can imagine, these expressions can be a source of confusion even among native speakers at times. Just to be clear here, I would say, "I cannot handle that job" (it is beyond my abilities) or "I cannot handle the stress associated with that job," meaning that I can do the job all right, but the circumstances (unpleasant colleagues, lack of time, etc.) make it intolerable. I hope this helps. And, Jordan, feel free to add to or correct anything I have written here.
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I agree with everything that Jordan says. I would add, however, that sometimes "handle" can be used to refer to one's capacity to tolerate stress, pain, or powerful emotions. For example, you could say something like, "My ex-wife is going to be at the party, and I am not sure that I can handle that." I think even this example tends to support the distinction that Jordan made, that is, that "handle" has to do with physical ability or, here, tolerance for pain; "deal with" is often more emotional. However, "deal with" can also have a purely practical application (this just occurred to me). For example, "I'll deal with you later," that is, I'll attend to you later. As you can see, these expressions are complex and multivalent.
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For me personally there is a differnc. I think of handle in terms of physical ability to control or complete a task. Like for instance "Hey that box looks heavy are you sure you can handle it?". Another example of how I use handle might be in a response to that question " Yeah I've got a handle on it, but thank you!". That's just personal opinion though I think. As for deal, I tend to think of it as emotionally instead of physical. Like "This test is so stressful that I can't deal with it!". Or maybe " The ebarrasment id being honest with my feelings is to much to deal with." Something like that. Ones physical and ones emotional for me I think that's my difference.
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