✨Vocabulary Box ✨

✍Diatribe✍

To go on a diatribe about something? What is this ?

I've never met the word before in English but I know it in Russian 😇

✍ДИАТРИБА - Жанр античной литературы, ораторская речь, произнесённая с критикой кого-то или чего-то, часто с использованием юмора, сарказма и апелляции к эмоциям.

The English term came from Greek "diatribē," which means "to wear away" or "to rub off." This sense of wearing away or grinding down is reflected in the way that diatribes can be relentless and unyielding in their attack on their target.

In Russian I assume we should interpret it as " обличительная речь,тирада"
✍it is lengthy
✍focus on criticism and negativity
✍with exhaustive details
✍the tone is abrasive and unpleasant
✍galvanizes support for a particular cause or point of view

E.g. I can't believe he went on a DIATRIBE about his ex for an hour."😂

Я люблю почитать комменты после видео про нарцистические расстройства на английском 🙈😂 и встречала это слово уже много раз! Какая все-таки прелесть - моё хобби смотреть психологические разборы на английском 😂

☀️💫 What is a Saturday full of JOY ??💫☀️

Good people, Moscow summer, book shops, Italian books 📚 and a remarkable book club meeting! All about BOOKS 📚They bring people together.

IT WAS ONE FOR THE BOOKS!
( то,что запомнится и останется в памяти )

💫After the book " Selfie" by Will Storr, which is my current read,I'm going to switch for Cesare Pavese in original

🌞It looks like I am an OPACAROPHILE 🌤

Sounds bizarre but nothing bad in the term indeed🌄

A lover of SUNSETS is called an 'opacarophile'. 'opacare' which is Latin for dusk or sunset, and 'phile' which is Greek for love.A person who loves to watch the sunsets....

Psychology tells us the following :
🌆 Sunsets affect our mood. Studies have proven it. Sunsets are a wonderful inducer of calm, of taking away stress, of slowing us down. They relax us, they can induce a time of meditation or to not think at all as we just experience the joy of the moment brought on by the view.
🌇Psychology reasearch has shown that being physically exposed to sunsets yields in a long-lasting satisfaction and stress relief. It is a form of meditation allowing you to clear your mind of all that is going on in your body and mind.

💛🧡The photo is taken in Orekhovo-Zuevo,Moscow region. NO PHOTOSHOP

🖇More facts are in the article,guys🔎
https://www.vintageisthenewold.com/faq/what-is-the-personality-of-a-person-who-loves-sunsets

🤓📖ITALIAN AND ME 📖

📖I've started doing it at last!!! Reading in Italian in original 📖

I immersed myself in my second beloved language reading consciously. My experience might encourage one of YOU to follow me and benefit from summer ☀️

MY REGULAR DAILY CHALLENGE:
📌 read 2- 3 chapters EVERY DAY ( 5- 10 pages)
📌bother about new words)))
📌read ALOUD some pages to practise pronunciation
📌reread some paragraphs if misunderstood the sense

I fully realize that the book is of a much higher level than my actual one 😅 (Advanced - the book's, not mine))) but I noticed 4 things :

🎊the more I read,the more I understand
🎊the more I read,the bigger pleasure I'm getting
🎊I'm not irritated by something I dont know or understand
🎊my Italian brain is ALIVE !!!

Итог: начала со скрипом,было откровенно ЛЕНЬ... в такую- то жару⏳еле-еле шла по книге. После 9 главы дело пошло 🔥 Хотите читать вместе,начинайте любую книгу на иностранных языках ! Я с вами , поддерживаю и всегда рядом ☀️📚

🐏🐑 LA PECORA NERA ( Italian)
🐏🐑BLACK SHEEP ( English)
🐏🐑 БЕЛАЯ ВОРОНА ( Русский)

🌤 My reading 📚 in Italian is going on and on ! 100 pages and 18 chapters so far ,in the depth of which I found "LA PECORA" (овечка) and reasonably, the idiom " BLACK SHEEP " came to mind⚡️

Etymology is much more intriguing! Look 👁

The wool of a sheep can be dyed different colours. Black sheep have a recessive gene that makes their wool black in colour. This means that it can not be dyed a different colour and makes it less valuable than white wool.
👁In the 16th century sheep with black wool was seen as carrying the mark of the devil.

The phrase has been used, in the same context as we use it today, since the 18th century.

👁The folklore Record (1878)

We speak figuratively of the one black sheep that is the cause of sorrow in a family; but in its reality it is regarded by the Sussex shepherd as an omen of good luck to his flock.

В русском языке "паршивая овца" звучит не так мило и нежно,как итал. LA PECORA NERA 🤔 Да?