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

[Erin McKean]

Thanks Michał! :-)

Erin

On 6/21/14, 4:56 PM, Michał Ptaszynski wrote:
> 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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