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Inthemood Posted 17 years ago
Vocabulary

Journal / diary.

Do you guys find many differences between "journal" and "diary"?
Rather than "keeping a journal" sounds fancier than "keeping a diary," what kind of aspect could kick in? 

Usually a diary means that you jot down the events happened that day while a journal means that you write down your thoughts and feeling on something. Who merely writes down daily events without any thought on them? Then, we can call a diary a journal pretty much? 
  

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In addition to being upper register, I've often thought of a journal as (sometimes) being restricted to one aspect of the writer's endeavors; that is, not necessarily his overall "personal" life. But I think there are also regional and cultural differences.

— Avangi

  • In addition to being upper register, I've often thought of a journal as (sometimes) being restricted to one aspect of the writer's endeavors; that is, not necessarily his overall "personal" life.
  • But I think there are also regional and cultural differences.
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In addition to being upper register, I've often thought of a journal as (sometimes) being restricted to one aspect of the writer's endeavors; that is, not necessarily his overall "personal" life.

But I think there are also regional and cultural differences.
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In a diary you can find pictures or short sentences and conversation if the writer imagine that the diary is his friend while journal is a passage on what had happened today
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Good point. I've seen entries begin "Dear Diary," but never "Dear Journal."
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So you guys find a journal more formal than a diary.
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