"The cardinal difficulty ... in collaboration between the sexes is that women speak a language without nouns. If two men are doing a bit of work, one will say to the other, 'Put this bowl inside the bigger bowl which you'll find on the top shelf of the green cupboard.' The female for this is, 'Put that in the other one in there.' And then if you ask them, 'In where?' they say, 'in there, of course.' There is consequently a phatic hiatus."
-- That Hideous Strength, C.S.Lewis
personally, i tend to agree with this 112%. upon reading this to my wife (while attempting to help do dishes none the less) she emphatically denounced the idea under the argument "how many times have we been driving and you've said, 'Look at that!'" i tried to tell her this was a completely different story because while driving one cannot take the time for a full explanation, else the topic of interest will be long past before the second party even attempts to see it, so therefore i merely point (and then give the explanation while she's looking so that hopefully having her eyes in the general direction will allow time to see what i'm talking about). anyone else's thoughts? you've at least gotta back me up on the driving thing, n'est pas? ...right?
IN OTHER NEWS: just saw wall-e tonight. it's great. highly recommended for kids of all ages. and grown ups too. although hopefully seeing it will turn you back into kids. :-)
like the man said, "that's all, [denizens of the digitally interconnected cyberspace called the internet]" ...or at least he would have said it. if he had an internet. maybe.
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... and then, in the middle of the conversation and more importantly in the middle of doing the dishes you say "I have to blog this!" and dash off to your computer. Leaving me to do the dishes. That my dear is the real reason why men and women can't do housework together. The men keep being distracted by something they would rather be doing while the women realize that even though they would much rather be doing one of several other things that would either help her parents or beautify the world or possibly both, the dishes will draw bugs if they aren't cleaned.
Also, you are always speaking without nouns, it's just most annoying and therefore memorable when we are driving. Either you are driving and you say "look!" and point, expecting me to realize that the portion of the world which is rushing by that you want me to recognise is actually the back of the billboard we just passed. Or I'm driving and am therefore too occupied with the road to search wildly about me for who knows what. sillyhead.
Erm... I think that it's both sexes. I know I do it. But I also know that dad does it. Mom is actually much better than either of us of giving a very strong impression as to what she's talking about. Unless I'm in trouble. Then it gets fuzzy.
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