It is often said that men and women use English in different ways.

Hi Bingley,
You had started the thread with above sentence. I was wondering whether you know anything more about this? I tried to LIU ...

Avy, I can't speak for what Bingley meant, but I thought of an example I once heard, relating to the way we get (or don't get) our expectations across. A wife tells her husband the light bulb above the sink needs to be changed.
He says uh huh, and continues on about his business. These lines are repeated every night for a week, until she finally explodes and says Why in the world haven't you changed that light bulb? And he says, in honest perplexity,
why didn't you ask me to?