[austechwriter] [Article]: My word, it's easy to pick him or her







   "A new computer program can determine the sex of an author

   by detecting subtle differences in the words men and women

   prefer to use.



   For instance, female writers tend to choose grammatical terms

   that apply to personal relationships, such as "for" and "with,"

   more frequently than men do.



   ...Men, on the other hand, use more numbers, adjectives and

   determiners - words such as "the," "this" and "that" - because

    they apparently care more than women do about conveying

   specific information.



Full article at:
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/05/27/1053801370330.html



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The Stuart Burnfield
The Information Developer                        Email: sburnf at hey you
at ibm dot com
The Australian Programming Centre      Phone: +61 8 9261 8719

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