Re: CHAT: BOOK/CHAT: FW: Lunatic Lovers of Language

Nik Taylor wrote:

> Well, except for Baba and Sally Caves, I can't think of any women on
> this list, so that does seem a good generalization.  I wonder why?
> Aren't women supposedly better at verbal skills than men?
>
Perhaps thats the answer.  They (women) do it easily and naturally,
we struggle so much with ordinary language we just have to invent
a new one thats better for us.   I suspect it is related to the refusal-
to-stop-and-ask-for-directions problem too :)

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