Lexical Differences (pt 2 of 2)

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[deadkytty9]

I will never use the word "hubby" unironically. Blech.

[differenceblog]

I'm really fighting the urge to characterize blogspot as mommy-blogs. Whoops, I failed.

[detonate_for_me]

Size: Men were extremely unlikely to describe anything as "tiny", and more likely to describe things as being of "average" size than women.

ROFL. Oh man.

[differenceblog]

Wow. I totally didn't even notice I wrote that. *scurries off to see how it was phrased in the actual paper*

How big or small are the objects, people, and ideals that men and women prefer to focus upon? .... To test for gradability, we generated five size-graded expressions for each word in these lists using an inventory of five most common size adjectives, previously used in [24]. For example, the feminine feature “skirt” generated the terms: “tiny skirt,” “small skirt,” “average skirt,” “big skirt,” “huge skirt

[astrogeek01]

So the gender lens thing confuses me. These are the stories they think women/men will be most interested in from the day?

It sort of follows along on the poll / topic questions from yesterday's dblog. I do find it very interesting that the news topics more or less (though not quite) follow what I would *expect*, I am pretty much interested in about half the news from either side. Celebrity crap (brittany on the women's side, Vick on the men's side) can just go away, for all I'm concerned. ;) All the interesting world news is on the men's side though -- but all the good health stuff is on the women's side (or at least farther up)

[differenceblog]

If you were "normal", you wouldn't have followed differenceblog for a year :P