Speaking Like a Japanese Girl

Today in world news for men, we realize that Japan has a dialect for each sex.

Wherever you go, men and women tend to speak differently. But in Japan, those differences are more pronounced than in many places. Among the multilayered rules of grammar and usage governing spoken Japanese, there also exist underlying concepts of “men’s Japanese” and “women’s Japanese.” By the end of my 2-1/2-year stay there, I had unwittingly become conversant in the latter form.

Perhaps it’s time to throw out the fantasy of the female Japanese tutor, lest you start sounding like one.  More of the story at Christian Science Monitor.

Shit, how did they trick me to linking to them.  Golden Compass, Golden Compass, Golden Compass.