mm25075 wrote:
Please won't someone tell me what their definition of "a lot" is? It's spelled A L O T. How many minutes a day is that? It's a perfectly valid question! I mean seriously!
If I had to quantify it, I would say the average number of words required by the average woman to answer a "yes" or "no" question divided by the average number of words a man would use to answer the same question. That could be the wordiness ratio. I wonder if we could calculate a written version by examining the responses to a simple post on A2K.
*gasp*
Setanta is a woman! A giant, bearded woman!
New facts supplied by a trusted source:
Men speak on average 7000 words per day.
Women speak on average 22000 words per day!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-419040/Women-talk-times-men-says-study.html
I rest my case.
I just looked at the "damn cats" thread and I couldn't see a big difference. Written responses are probably different that spoken ones, but that's a data point.
Engineer wrote:I wonder if we could calculate a written version by examining the responses to a simple post on A2K.
Not now, but in the old site we could.
Robert will change the search engine, eventually..
I don't think that the women on here have denied talking too much .
Actually I should say that women are excellent conversationalists while men
are more sparingly with words. It's a genetic defect most men have, that's all!
You know . . . i'd resent the insult implicit in this post, if it weren't so damned funny . . .
Good Lord, I can't take it any more...
The real reason we talk, a lot. Is because of internal pressure, hot air. We'd all blow up otherwise. Satisfied??
Here's a conversation I remember having with my husband:
Jim White had his baby today.
Oh, what was it, boy or girl?
I donno.
What did they name it?
I donno
What hospital? How much did it weigh? how long was it? Was she in labor long? Who was there in the delivery room? Is mom OK? when are they coming home? Who's her OB?
I donno. They just said Jim White had his baby today.
Augggh!
It sounds like a crappy party. All it takes is one person.
Setanta wrote:
You know . . . i'd resent the insult implicit in this post, if it weren't so damned funny . . .
I thought it was really funny, too, and she's totally right on
We have a tennis court and hold a Friday morning social game-- it mainly consists between 5 to 15 woman, I being the lone male. Morning tea break conversation's amaze me -- At any one time there can be more than two girls conversing at the same time, yet they all seem to be able to listen to every conversation and make comments or reply to them at any time, also when one finishes a conservation another will take it up instantly-- I, of course, never am able to butt in and can only follow one talker at a time.
