Some anecdotes I remember regarding American English: men pose fewer questions, are more likely to use double negative forms, and use the passive voice less. M

Some anecdotes I remember regarding American English: men pose fewer questions, are more likely to use double negative forms, and use the passive voice less. Many word choices are somewhat gendered as well. One reply gives the obvious example of "lovely" being much more commonly used by women, but many words are like that. Even a simple choice like which empty qualifier you use -- "drastically", "dramatically", "enormously", "badly", "awfully" -- can apparently tip the scales one way or the other. (I don't know which is supposedly which for those!) These are small differences individually, but summed up they apparently become considerable.