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A rant wearing a suit, pretending it's an argument.
means A long, bitter piece of criticism or denunciation that attacks rather than reasons.
from From Greek 'diatribē,' meaning a way of spending time, a discourse, or a study — rooted in 'diatribein,' to wear away or rub through (as in time spent in discussion). It traveled through Latin into French before landing in English, and somewhere along the way its tone soured: a word that once meant simply a 'learned disquisition' curdled into something sharper, now reserved for rants with a grudge.
- origin
- Greek for wearing away time, literally
- vs rant
- same anger, better vocabulary
- length
- technically no limit, mercifully rare
- used by
- people who mistake volume for logic