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Duels and Duets: Why Men and Women Talk So Differently by John L Locke (view source)

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"Locke's subtitle ''Why Men and Women Talk So Differently'' might lead you to think that this is just another self-help ''Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus'' tome. It's not. Rather than focussing upon what we all know from experience – that men and women do not communicate very well because of some fundamental difference in their respective approach to verbal expression – the New York City University Professor of Linguistics sets out to explain WHY that might be.
His thesis is that there are biological and evolutionary imperatives that have led men to talk the way they do ''to other men'' and similarly for women to talk the way they do ''to other women'' which have led to two very different styles or mechanisms of communication, but there is no similar imperative that would or could have led to a third language (in the broad sense) for use in cross-sex conversations.
Further reading suggestion for more linguistic cogitation try: [[How Language Works: How Babies Babble, Words Change Meaning and Languages Live or Die by David Crystal]]l
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