#ooc

Unless you're talking about the pope

LOL

Also women use a lot of emphasis and intensive speech. Example. "You are SO fired." Males once again are direct to the point, and simple. "Your fired."

You're. (I know, but you asked me to!)

Also for females politeness and hyper-correct grammar. 😛

In both speaking and writing.

I can see that. Have also heard women less speak than 'sing', inflection-wise, and that would seem to go along with that.

Yes, if a woman uses a direct, declarative statement. Their tones will rise.

Don't know what study it was, but graphed, a man and woman saying the same sentence, the female is more likely to have ups-and-downs in her tones.

Making it into a sort-of-question.

Making into a sort-of-question? 😉

This is what my test is based on by the way. LOL

So, a guy will say, "You suck." A woman will say, "You SO suck?" (Okay, being silly, but.)

No. But a guy more than likely well just say. "You suck." But the gal will emphasis the -you-.

I found the first comment about accents and the South amusing. Because I worked at a call center and had Tourists talking about the South "Youse guys talk funny down there, y'know?" And I was chuckling because, gosh, we sure aren't alone. G

HAH! I bet. G And the things you wish you could say back, I'm sure.

There is also a lot of vocab stuff. Like girls tend to more colors, like teal, magenta. Where men are find with blue and red.

-G- Our study on accents was/is interesting!

So, when someone's gender and speech patterns are at odds, I am guessing there are negative repercussions? This is interesting, with female politicians having to balance directness with "She's a pushy bitch."

Also SLP's. Good ones. Don't think accents matter. -g- In fact many SLP's are fighting to keep dialects and accents alive, because a lot of them are based on culture and help to keep communities together.

Yes, there are often negative repercussions. Like we have seen with Politician. Its also why females often style switch between work and home.

Guys uptalk, too, but more fuss is made up women doing it

I think I heard a study that women have an edge in vision in actually telling variances in colors to guys. Guys have better vision for tracking movement. IF the theory is right, it's because women were more often gatherers as in "Gee, let's not get slightly brighter but Poisonous berries" where men were more often the hunters going "Okay.... prey is racing to the left so I need to throw the spear... THERE"... kind of neat that might have influenced our ways of reading and writing.

...I have Pittsburgh twang, too.

and speaking

Agreed; male spatial sense tends to be better than female's, females rely on landmarks primarily (all averaged, not universal) for that reason. And BTW, only females can be tetrochromats.

Oh my trad mages HATE those guys

oh wait, wrong thing

Because color vision is based partially at least on the X chromosome, a female can have a mixture of two different cones for color vision....which supports Val's statement.

Something that is really interesting. Is women use their speech and grammar, to show off rank. Men use those same things to show solidarity. I thought that was interesting.

So, a little mercy ladies, when you tell your man to get the 'Deep Ocean Azure' paint for the walls, and he brings in 'Flat Sapphire blue' instead, we're not TRYING to piss you off. Show mercy 🙂

Giggles

I would have thought it would be just the opposite, since males tend to be more hierarchal.

Val, you ever see "Mr Blandings Builds His Dream House"?

That IS interesting... I would have thought the reverse as well

And nope, Zara P, I haven't.

ok, one - you should, it is hilarious

Cary Grant and Myrna Loy

and two, this scene:

OTOH, females have mastered the high school art of verbal snubbing to an art form, so....

Well a study was done an a group of men in the UK. I think they were low income workers. Lots of them admitted that they knew they used the wrong sort of speech patterns. That they did not have proper "Speech" but in the end, they wanted to sound like the rest of their friends and those in their inner circle.

Okay, that makes some sense.

And yes, this scene is amusing!

Where women where interviewed in the same study, they said only un- educated people use those patterns so they wanted to speak the standard form for their location.

Which, in a way, means all the women are speaking the same TOO....