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> Verbena is a plant Hey, I knew that one! And sateen. But those were the only two. I didn't expect the divide to be so stark. In hindsight, I suppose it's re
by jjoonathan 5y ago
> Verbena is a plant
Hey, I knew that one! And sateen. But those were the only two. I didn't expect the divide to be so stark.
In hindsight, I suppose it's reasonable that terms from the largest, most gender-unbalanced niches should have considerable predictive power, but I didn't expect it to be quite so effective going in.
- cataphract 5y agoI only knew this one. I have a lemon verbena. It makes great infusions. I highly recommend it if you live in a warmish climate. They grow very fast.
- flir 5y agoFreesia is a plant too (my grandmother's favourite). I knew most of the fabric ones (ruche, tulle, chenille, etc) but that's my wife's hobby. I don't know if that counts as trade-specific jargon or not (I guess not if the majority of women know them, and not just dressmakers). People in our industry should definitely know jacquard, though.
- ummonk 5y agoI think the bigger surprise for me is now that the most gender imbalanced words are highly imbalanced, but that more than half of the male ones seem so common place and hardly obscure to me. I imagine women would react the same way to most of the female words.