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Jun 16th 2012 00:04
I don’t have much time to write this entry now, so I’m going to ask you simply.
When do you use this word, “diversion”?
I learned the word from an American drama, “Desperate Housewives”.
A man used this word, when he meant that he thought that his older girlfriend went out with him for a diversion after her divorce.
Is it right to say, “I’m learning foreign languages for my diversion”?
Ookami
Jun 16th 2012 00:22
When you try to focus or make someone focus on something else. She went out with him so she could get her mind off of the divorce. You could say "I am learning foreign languages as a diversion." but you'd have to put from what to be more clear.

I hope my sub-par explanation helps, haha.
Jun 16th 2012 01:25 tony
"Diversion" is the noun form of the verb "divert", whose core meaning is to make something go in a different direction. As Ookami-san said, in this case, the man thinks that the woman may have gone out with him just to stop herself from thinking too much about the divorce. The implication is that he is afraid that she may not be serious about her relationship with him; it may be "just a diversion".

You can certainly say that you learn foreign languages as a diversion, but it suggests that you are not really serious about it; that you do it for fun, but that becoming proficient at the languages is not an important goal for you.
Jun 16th 2012 06:30 mayumayu
Thanks for the explanations, both of you!
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