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Article: SEX ON THE BRAIN WOMEN USE 20,000 WORDS A DAY, MEN ONLY 7,000 - OR SO SAYS A NEW BESTSELLER. FACT-CHECKING "THE FEMALE BRAIN."
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- September 24, 2006
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EXPERTS TELL US the Eskimos have about four dozen words for snow.
Or is it 200? Or seven? Or maybe four? Here's a hint: It's roughly
the same number as in English. And here's another hint: Most of the
people who throw Eskimo snow-word numbers around don't know anything
about it, and haven't bothered to look it up. It's easy to see how
funky numbers about an exotic language can turn into an urban
legend. But it might surprise you to find apparently authoritative
sources doing the same thing with basic facts about your own
language use.Here's one example: Over the last 15 years, a series
of books and articles have told us that women talk a lot more than
men do. According to Dr. ...
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