The Very Same Munchhausen.

What's up, guys. How's it going?

In this article we're going to learn a few aspects of articles. The topic itself is amazing as we'll know how to use definite or indifinite articles with names and not to be beaten to death by a ruler.

• We can use a/an with personal names where we suppose our listener doesn't know a person we refer to. It is the same thing as "someone called"

<...>
-Who told you that?
-Our new neighbor, a Mr White.

• In contrast, we may use the clarifying that we mean "that very person"

-I saw Bill Gates yesterday.
-Wait, you met the Bill Gates himself?

• Another way to use the indefinite article is to pick one member of something (e.g. a family, an organisation)

I wish I were rich as a Rothschild.

I ordered a brand new Economist (=one copy of it) and closed the tab.

• When we want to highlight someone's quality and compare it with the epitome.

He's so ingenious, a Stephen f*cking Hawking!

All these crypto projects founders are the new Mavrodis.

• With some particular names, titles and descriptions

William the Conqueror (the Bastard) [the first king of England], Ivan the Terrible [an (in)famous russian tsar], Alfred the Great [King of the West Saxons].

• In a specific context, when we talk about different "versions" of something

This is not the Moscow where I used to live.

The brainwashed John didn't show any disobedience whatsoever.

That was only a few possible cases in which we can use articles with names of people to convey some idea, (let alone all proper nouns) but it is still a great deal of digesting the information, isn't it? For that, make sure to note it while watching\listening to\reading stuff and give us your examples.

Stay helware.

Goodbye.