[Corpora-List] Fwd: gender differences in word knowledge

[Michał Ptaszynski]

You're right Francis,
Charlotte, sorry for being sexist :) 
Happy ACL to everyone.

Michal Ptaszynski

Dnia 2014/06/21 o godz. 19:45 Francis Bond <bond at ieee.org> napisał(a):

> Hi,
> 
> just a quick note to say that while I found your joke inappropriate, I
> realize it was meant to be a joke, and I am sure you didn't mean to
> make anyone feel uncomfortable.   So please don't take my (our)
> criticism as a personal attack, it's just an attempt to make the list
> welcoming to everyone.
> 
> Yours,
> 
> 
> On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 11:15 PM, Michal Ptaszynski
> <michal.ptaszynski at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Maybe we should change names of new cosmetics, clothes and jewlery to
>> contain such words women dont like - this could save our wallets :)
>> 
>> Michal
>> 
>> Dnia 20-06-2014 o 13:01:07 Jim Fidelholtz <fidelholtz at gmail.com> napisał(a):
>> 
>> 
>>> Cześć, Michal,
>>> 
>>> Sure they do. They just know them as emeralds. ;)
>>> 
>>> Jim
>>> 
>>> James L. Fidelholtz
>>> Posgrado en Ciencias del Lenguaje
>>> Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades
>>> Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, MÉXICO
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 5:25 AM, Michal Ptaszynski <
>>> michal.ptaszynski at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Fascinating discovery! If someone asked me I would never bet that women
>>>> don't like smaragds :)
>>>> 
>>>> --
>>>> Michal Ptaszynski
>>>> 
>>>> Dnia 19 cze 2014 o godz. 20:14 "Marc Brysbaert" <marc.brysbaert at ugent.be>
>>>> napisał(a):
>>>> 
>>>> For those of you who are interested in gender differences in word
>>>> knowledge, we have compiled a list of 24 words with the largest
>>>> differences
>>>> between men and women (12 favoring males and 12 favoring females):
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> http://zipf.ugent.be/crr.ugent.be/archives/1628
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> The data are based on the first 500,000 lists completed of our vocabulary
>>>> test (http://vocabulary.ugent.be/).
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Here you find a list of 20 words not known to anyone:
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> http://crr.ugent.be/archives/1621
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> (in case you need some for word learning studies).
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Kind regards,
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Marc Brysbaert
>>>> 
>>>> Department of Experimental Psychology
>>>> 
>>>> Ghent University
>>>> 
>>>> Henri Dunantlaan 2
>>>> 
>>>> B-9000 Gent
>>>> 
>>>> Belgium
>>>> 
>>>> Tel. +32 9 264 94 25
>>>> 
>>>> Fax. +32 9 264 64 96
>>>> 
>>>> E-mal: marc.brysbaert at ugent.be
>>>> 
>>>> Website: http://crr.ugent.be/members/marc-brysbaert
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
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>> Michal PTASZYNSKI
>> ptaszynski at ieee.org
>> 
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> 
> 
> -- 
> Francis Bond <http://www3.ntu.edu.sg/home/fcbond/>
> Division of Linguistics and Multilingual Studies
> Nanyang Technological University

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