Surprising fact learnt today

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Originally Posted by AndySpeed

In another one of my interesting linguistics lectures (no more 'eats shoots and leaves' for now :p : ) I found that women don't actually talk as much as men! From a corpus of language, it is found that (from the British National Corpus):

Females speak a total of 3,267,444 words
Males speak a total of 4,920,742 words

I find it hard to believe, women always seem to have the most pointless conversations

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It's probably because the men are alive for an extra 5years...?

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Originally Posted by Quattroporte

It's probably because the men are alive for an extra 5years...?

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I'm fairly sure that women live longer than men, on average.

No hang on, I've got it now. They only surveyed Gay men.

Perhaps the survey was conducted on young adults, where the males, especially around here, seem to feel the need to add 'man', 'dude', 'innit' or 'like' several times into everyday sentences where they would otherwise be unnecessary :dozey:

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Originally Posted by CarlMetro

Perhaps the survey was conducted on young adults, where the males, especially around here, seem to feel the need to add 'man', 'dude', 'innit' or 'like' several times into everyday sentences where they would otherwise be unnecessary :dozey:

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No, sadly thats a global desease.