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post #151 of 168
8/27/08 at 3:37pm
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Originally Posted by MissZooey View Post
Holy shit, a Deborah Cameron namecheck? I love CHUD...
I was listening to her talk about this on Joy Cardin's WPR show on my way to work this morning, so it was fresh on my mind when I read eenin's post.

Glad I could blow your mind today, Z.
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post #152 of 168
8/27/08 at 3:40pm
Smart lady

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The bones of Cameron’s argument, set out in The Myth of Mars and Venus, are that Gray et al have no scientific basis for their claims. Great sheaves of academic papers, says Cameron, show that the language skills of men and women are almost identical. Indeed, the central tenets of the Mars and Venus culture – that women talk more than men, that men are more direct, that women are more verbally skilled – can all be debunked by scientific research. A recent study in the American journal Science, for instance, found men and women speak almost exactly the same number of words a day: 16,000.
“The main thing about the book is that I wanted to offer people more than the evidence-free rubbish they get every day,” says Cameron. “My pitch was basically the CSI pitch: let the evidence tell the story.”
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post #153 of 168
8/27/08 at 3:42pm
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A recent study in the American journal Science, for instance, found men and women speak almost exactly the same number of words a day: 16,000.
I'd be interested to know how many points are made in one 16,000 versus the other.
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post #154 of 168
8/27/08 at 3:48pm
What are you driving at, Banks?
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post #155 of 168
8/27/08 at 3:49pm
He's saying "Admit it, you're a Venushian!"
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post #156 of 168
8/27/08 at 3:50pm
Oh, I'm chatty. I'll admit it. I just don't see why it's a problem.
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post #157 of 168
8/27/08 at 3:51pm
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Originally Posted by billylove View Post
Smart lady
Well I for one have never read Mars and Venus, so I would not know what is the myths of Mars and Venus are, but men and women do think in slightly different way in a lot of little areas. This can lead to misunderstandings. A major one is feelings verse 411 as a case in point.
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post #158 of 168
8/27/08 at 4:03pm
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Originally Posted by MissZooey View Post
Oh, I'm chatty. I'll admit it. I just don't see why it's a problem.
Never said it was. Just another one of my exceedingly hilarious observations. Up next: airline food tastes bad.
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post #159 of 168
8/27/08 at 4:04pm
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Originally Posted by eenin View Post
Well I for one have never read Mars and Venus, so I would not know what is the myths of Mars and Venus are, but men and women do think in slightly different way in a lot of little areas. This can lead to misunderstandings. A major one is feelings verse 411 as a case in point.
I really don't know what you are saying.
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post #160 of 168
8/27/08 at 4:11pm
Maybe you're from Venus...
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post #161 of 168
8/27/08 at 4:13pm
16,000 words a day? 1000 words an hour? That's seems steep, at least for me.

I'm going to do an informal experiment and type what I'm hearing at the office over the next few minutes.

Woman 1 on the phone: For them to decide... you know, whatever. Government. After I hear more from him, I'm gonna talk to my insurance agent, and say, "why am I fighting this battle?" You know what I mean? If they say whatever they say... Yeah, I'm sorry. I hadn't planned on it.

[Silence]
Unknown: Someone groans. I think it was a guy, though. I'll count it as 1 for the guys.

Man 1: Hey, howyadoin? Yeah, come on, let's go.

[Long Silence]

Woman 2 on the phone: Hello! Hey, how are you? ... And? Is this a secret? It's not one of those [unintelligible], is it? Uh huh. Good! The only thing I have going on is Saturday, I have a game at 6:30, and then I have at 10 PM... Don't get in trouble like you used to, Lawson! [Pause] I didn't know it was about that. [keep in mind that this particular lady is like 40 feet away and I'm not straining to hear her at all]. Well, it's her choice. Ooooh! Ha ha ha ha! Oh, Man! Hormone city! Well, is she a Freshman next year? Where at? Oh, ok.

Man 2: Yeah.

Man 3: Cough

Men: 12

Women: 71

Note that I'm not claiming anything. Just doing this for fun. However, I do question the 16,000 word thing, although maybe I'm just quiet.

Edit: Note that I counted 'howyadoin' as three separate words.
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post #162 of 168
8/27/08 at 4:16pm
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Originally Posted by billylove View Post
I really don't know what you are saying.
Okay to clarify, when women are talking about intimacy of communication, they do not really want to know how the man feels about things, just what has happen.
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post #163 of 168
8/27/08 at 4:21pm
Oh, feelings vs. the 411. I've been trying to figure out which verse of this song you were talking about.
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post #164 of 168
8/27/08 at 4:25pm
Well, not using grammar is a different way of communicating, I guess.
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post #165 of 168
8/27/08 at 5:30pm
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Originally Posted by Abbott & Prospero View Post
Oh, feelings vs. the 411. I've been trying to figure out which verse of this song you were talking about.
I thought he was talking about verse 411 of the extended dance remix version of the Morris Albert standard "Feelings."
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post #166 of 168
8/27/08 at 5:51pm
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Okay to clarify, when women are talking about intimacy of communication, they do not really want to know how the man feels about things, just what has happen.
You aren't listening.
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post #167 of 168
8/27/08 at 5:59pm
I find that while on a genetical level, there is an exceptionally small, almost imperceptible difference between people born in different regions of the world, with most of those differences relegated to pigment, that there are fundamental differences between people of different locations, specifically how they behave in situations where -in comparing the differences - it can produce humorous results.
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post #168 of 168
8/28/08 at 12:43am
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Okay to clarify, when women are talking about intimacy of communication, they do not really want to know how the man feels about things, just what has happen.
Do you mean dirty talk?
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