[Corpora-List] FW: Gender differences in language

[Mike Maxwell]

James L. Fidelholtz wrote:
> Without denying that some of us (who, through modesty, will remain 
> nameless) *do* have logorrheic impulses...

(and I am one of the worst offenders)

> Personally, I find two good things about this list:
 >
 > 1) it has more good discussions than any other list I can think of...
 >
 > 2) it is by far the most helpful list I know of...

As it happens, the next msg in my mailbox was from Linguist List, with 
the topic "Discuss: Your Ideas in the New Linguistics Forum!".  The 
forum in question (at 
http://linguistlist.org/pubs/blackwell/compass_index.cfm) provides links 
to linguistics articles (currently four of them); the Linguist List 
posting mentions that several of the comment boards are now blank, so 
it's safe to say that those forums are underutilized.  (Of course, 
there's a danger of hijacking an article's forum for some unrelated 
discussion.)

It's also the case that Linguist List book reviews are intended to be 
the seed of a discussion, although they almost never get discussed on LL 
after the initial posting of a review.

So in addition to the corpora mailing list, there are other places 
specifically set up for discussion, albeit with some constraints on what 
the discussion is supposed to be about.
-- 
    Mike Maxwell
    What good is a universe without somebody around to look at it?
    --Robert Dicke, Princeton physicist

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