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coalescentAccording to this, I write like a woman:
This sounds like something that should be true according to traditional stereotypes, rather than something that is actually true (I'm tempted to run down my friends list and see what it makes of you all). It's also not clear how much account it takes of the purpose of the writing, or whether it's just (meant to be) limited to fiction - news reports, reviews, press releases and so on all have very clearly defined styles, after all.
In other news, I went swimming last night, for (discounting holiday splashes) the first time in several years. I managed 20 lengths in my hour, then went home and slept like a log. Slept, in fact, through both alarms. As a result, I was nontrivially late for work. Oops. It's not even as though I don't feel tired any more - although it is at least the good kind of tired.
Reading back, I abused parentheses in this entry. I wonder whether that's a male or female thing to do...?
Female writers use more pronouns (I, you, she, their, myself), say the program's developers, Moshe Koppel of Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan, Israel, and colleagues. Males prefer words that identify or determine nouns (a, the, that) and words that quantify them (one, two, more).
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These differing styles have previously been called 'informational' and 'involved', respectively.
This sounds like something that should be true according to traditional stereotypes, rather than something that is actually true (I'm tempted to run down my friends list and see what it makes of you all). It's also not clear how much account it takes of the purpose of the writing, or whether it's just (meant to be) limited to fiction - news reports, reviews, press releases and so on all have very clearly defined styles, after all.
In other news, I went swimming last night, for (discounting holiday splashes) the first time in several years. I managed 20 lengths in my hour, then went home and slept like a log. Slept, in fact, through both alarms. As a result, I was nontrivially late for work. Oops. It's not even as though I don't feel tired any more - although it is at least the good kind of tired.
Reading back, I abused parentheses in this entry. I wonder whether that's a male or female thing to do...?
