Do men and women speak the same way?

[irmamar]

I'd like to know your opinion about the way both women and men speak in any conversation. If you want to add any idea about this, I'd like to know it, too. My aim is not a war of the sexes, of course, but to know your opinion. If you know another culture where common patterns may change, you can talk about it.

Thank you very much.

[Perikles]

A great idea. The poll does not differentiate between mixed-sex groups and single-sex groups, where differences are huge. In groups of women, everybody talks at the same time about different things, whereas in groups of men, they adopt the peculiar habit of keeping to one topic, listening to others and taking turns to talk .

This is not opinion, this is fact . I have discussed this with women now and again, and some of them claim that in the female conversations, they do in fact listen to several things at once, even though it sounds as if everybody is talking and nobody is listening. Do you believe this?

[irmamar]

It doesn't matter if the group is mixed or not. And after a few answers, I'll explain what studies about it say.

[poli]

En general los hombres y las mujeres en EEUU no hablan en el mismo modo. Nuevamente hay un accento nacional llamado valley de que un gran
porcentaje de mujeres jovenes hablan, y casi no hay ningún hombre que lo usa. Donde trabajo hay varias mujeres que usan habitualmente algunos frases cúrsis como oh my god! o o how cute! tres o cuatro veces la hora, y los hombres se los usan menos.

Los hombres tambien tienen sus fórmulas. Uno que me molesta es su uso del verbo impact. Entre algunos hombres el sustanivo impact no existe y eso me molesta.

En general los hombres y mujeres usan profanidad y obsenidad distintamente. Los hombres los usa más directo y con más rencor. Ejemplo de lo que puede decir un hombre : Goddam him! That f***ing lazy piece of s*** wrote a check for himself and left us owing money to f**** electric company!
Mujeres: O f***! This sh**** pen ran out of ink. Does anyone have another goddam pen I can borrow?

Los que escribo son observacionces nada más y es claro que la mayoría los hombres y las mujeres son capaces de hablar igual.
Espero que no haya ofendido a nadie con mis ejemplos.

[Dale]

I voted but there is no way I'm making a comment on this one..

[AngelicaDeAlquezar]

Interesting... none of the differences I see in women's and men's talk are listed in the poll.

I agree with Poli on the differences between accents and expressions (almost) specifically associated with women or men, and the fact that bad words are not exclusively used by any sex.

As for who speaks more and more attentively, I see it as a mere matter of education, not sex.

[CrOtALiTo]

I don't believe the gender being the exception at this case, because if you know speak English or Spanish the same person will speak well the language without does a race with other people, then you surely speak Spanish well and a women can speaks the Spanish also well like you.

I don't believe it being a impediment at this case.

[irmamar]

Angélica, which are the differences you see?

Crotalito, it doesn't matter the language spoken. In fact I'm more interested in other cultures than in mine.

[Dale]

@Angélica. Yes, please share your thoughts on what differences you see?

@irmamar - Isn't that often the way it is. Many of us are more interested in the cultures of others than in our own. I wonder why that is? The attraction of the unfamiliar?

My observations do show me that women use many more words than the man. I am not saying they talk a lot...only that they use more words... And they are generally more polite than the male.

[irmamar]

I guess that's because we already know our culture and el ansia de saber es inherente al ser humano (not sure: longing for knowledge is inherent to the human being ).