On 20 Sep 2007 at 16:52:26 -0400, "Armed Blowfish" diodontida.armata@googlemail.com wrote:

Well, women, on average, have tear ducts 60% larger than men's. There's a fair amount of business advice encouraging women to adopt masculine communication techniques. And there are Debora Tannen's books....

Is this a true, documented fact, or a myth? There are a lot of bogus theories going around about differences between men and women; here's a debunking of one of them:

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004922.html