(July 3, 2012 at 1:32 am)Rayaan Wrote:(July 2, 2012 at 4:34 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Is that all that impressive since it is 50-50 to begin with?
Yeah, not really impressive, but still I find it a little interesting that a male writer may use certain words more frequently than a female writer (and vice versa).
That's not entirely correct. I showed Hovik the generator and it confused him. Although he isn't a sociolinguist, he does know that attributing certain words to genders isn't correct. It is true that certain genders tend to use certain language, but word-for-word (especially function words) doesn't make sense.