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12-04-2006, 02:16 PM | #1 | |
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Yakity yak, don't talk back .....
From an article in the Daily Mail....
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and can't wait till half-time.
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12-04-2006, 02:25 PM | #2 |
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So?
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12-04-2006, 02:40 PM | #3 | |
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Excellent, Bri!
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12-04-2006, 02:54 PM | #4 |
Makes some feel uncomfortable
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Shaddup already!:p
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12-04-2006, 02:57 PM | #5 |
Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya?
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Damn yakin' ass yakin' women!
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12-04-2006, 03:45 PM | #6 |
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Nature or nurture?
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12-04-2006, 03:57 PM | #7 |
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Someone actually thought they had to study this to get to this outcome?
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12-04-2006, 04:02 PM | #8 |
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12-04-2006, 05:05 PM | #9 |
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I saw quite a good article refuting the findings of this study. How much one converses seems to have much more to do with the social grouping and culture one grew up in.
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12-04-2006, 05:45 PM | #10 |
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I'd like to read that, Dana.
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12-04-2006, 06:04 PM | #11 | |
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Unfortunately it's taken from a book of essays I read for the linguistics component of my adult literacy subject support course: The linguist cited in the Telegraph's coverage of the 'Women talk more than Men' article is the one who wrote the book. In the telegraph they end their article about the new findings with :
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The idea that there is proof of women talking more than men, isn't really that new. It's been floated before. Which is why there is quite a lot of material out there refuting it :P |
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12-04-2006, 06:12 PM | #12 | |
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I'm a bit skeptical about that study...most of the males in my life talk WAY more than I or any other females I know do. However,
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12-04-2006, 06:17 PM | #13 |
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Hmm. That's a possibility. Also, drugs that give a buzz, like amphetamines and cocaine tend to make one very very chatty.....I wonder if talking and feeling high are somehow linked ?
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12-04-2006, 06:47 PM | #14 |
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One of my pain meds makes me talkative.
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12-04-2006, 06:48 PM | #15 |
We have to go back, Kate!
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What does it have in it?
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