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>some sort of standard reference text
No, more a fashion accessory. I looked it up on Amazon and see you can get the book, the tape, the video, the computer game, the t-shirt, the set of matching towels ...
It's a bit like Bridget Jones, eventually you have to read it, otherwise you don't understand the references people make to it.
Shanks -
What do you think about "The Selfish Gene"?
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Poster Sex- All I think of when I see this thread is this year's "Wonderbra" poster which featured a Wimbledon tennis player. It shows the power of advertising. I just can't take it seriously  !
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What do you think about "The Selfish Gene"?
The book or the idea? Actually I think that both are great. I am a huge fan of Dawkins and have read most of his stuff. Of course, The Selfish Gene was published in the mid/late '70s, so may be slightly out of date - though I think they have done a revised edition recently. I am currently tempted to buy the (apparently) more scholarly follow up - The Extended Phenotype (published 1981 or some such). Let's see. Evolution fascinates me, and I'm currently in the middle of two books on it...
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Was it just any old Wimbledon player - or was it the one and only Kounikova, over whom so many men seem prepared to drool, dribble, spout drivel etc?
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>over whom so many men seem prepared to drool, dribble, spout drivel etc? Precisely, poster sex  !
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why didn't you ask me to?
Brilliant!
Give me a simple little story like that rather than an ocean of books any day!
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Avy, if you can't get hold of the books various people have mentioned, you could try a search on Google with the terms psycholinguistics, male, female. Not all the references will be spot on, but trust in serendipity.
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..And he says, in honest perplexity,
why didn't you ask me to?..They must have been married for more than seven years  . No, I don't think that this has much to do with psycholinguistics. I would file it under "defence mechanisms".
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I think the woman in question would be helped enormously by this advice and the updated version also included: http://users.erols.com/cozy/50swoman.html
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Thank you for the search suggestion Mr Bingley. The first item that came up was an analysis of the papers written on the subject and was particularly interesting. I particularly liked one of the writer's conclusions which was what I was trying to say all along:
"Whatever, it now seems obvious that a crass distinction between male and female anything, let alone language, is not going to be particularly helpful for analysis of human behaviour."
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"a crass distinction between male and female anything"
Ah. How pregnant with meaning is that delicately phrased 'anything'. Notice how 'anythings' would have been coarse.
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and I'm currently in the middle of two books on it...
This can only mean that you have finished the one on your right and haven't started the one on your left.
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(Martian) Fish on a (Venusian) Bike
If you are a Martian Fish, you must be a fish out of water. And Venus is a real gas, they tell me - - -
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Thanks for that link, Jo - I'm still grinning! (if a little wryly!)
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>.. How pregnant with meaning < The trouble is, as soon as you say something pregnant with meaning, people start guessing at your ah, gender .
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In the middle?
In between!!
Halfway through each of...?
Aaaargghh. How inadequate is this language of Shakespeare's!
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