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2). Do you agree that men and women use language differently? In what areas?

Men's conversation styles differ very much from women. Society has always thought women to always act "lady like" and women do tend to stress intimacy and connection within their language styles; where as men focus on autonomy and individual achievement.

Men also get away with a lot more than women when speaking. For instance, if a man says something outrageous and obnoxious, most people will brush it off and say, "boys will be boys,' but if a women says the same thing people will judge her and give her a hard time because of what she said.

It also comes down to gender expectations, because raising a boy is different than raising a little girl. Boys are encouraged to tease, play freely and compete, where as girls tend to interact in smaller group. This also separates men and women in the long run and how we use language. For example, men will often hear a another man's problem and will either: poke fun at it, down play it, or give a straight forward advice and I can definitively attest to experiencing all three. Women will often connect with the other person by sharing her own troubles.

Men also focus a lot on achievements when sharing stories to one another, where as women tend to share stories where they violated social rules and that made them look bad. Women are very much more detailed than men when describing a story or an object and women do use more qualifiers than men such as (kind of , somewhat, etc). Girls and women do laugh more than men, but men do incorporate more jokes into their language. Men also discourage conversation by responding to somebody with: "I see" or "Right." A woman will encourage conversation by responding with, "Hmm, I see."